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    Child Nutrition Programs

    This theme focuses on improving child nutrition through school meal programs and broader food initiatives for children.

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    In your area, there's a strong collective voice advocating for a significant upgrade to the school midday meal program. The overarching sentiment points to a desire for greater nutritional value and dietary diversity in children's meals 🍎. Citizens are keen to see the inclusion of traditional, local, and millet-based foods like ragi, jowar, and other indigenous grains, often suggesting these additions be provided two to three days a week 🌾. There's also a notable interest in incorporating nutrient-rich forest produce such as Mahua, Kendu, and various leafy greens 🌳, believing these changes will directly lead to improved physical and mental health for students.

    Dominant Themes

    Integration of Traditional/Local Foods
    Inclusion of Millet-based Dishes
    Utilization of Forest Produce in Meals
    Enhancing Child Nutrition and Health
    Midday Meal Program Improvement

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🌾 🍲 🗓Formulate and implement a policy to integrate traditional, local, and millet-based foods into the school midday meal program, specifying a minimum frequency per week.
    • 👩 🌾 💰Investigate sustainable sourcing mechanisms for indigenous ingredients, including millets and local forest produce, potentially through local farmer partnerships or community initiatives.
    • 💡 👨 🏫Launch awareness campaigns for parents, teachers, and students about the nutritional benefits of traditional and millet-based diets to encourage acceptance and demand.
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    Synthesised from the stories

    AI-synthesised pieces woven from many community voices on this theme. They may contain errors or interpretation — they're a reflection of the stories, not a record of fact.

    🧭 Action recipe· Forest and Food Heritage

    Bring Traditional Millets to School Meals

    By incorporating local, traditional grains like ragi and millet into school lunch programs, communities can significantly improve children's health and well-being.

    🧭 Action recipe· Forest and Food Heritage

    Feed Our Children Our Own Foods

    Our community advocates for the integration of traditional, locally sourced foods into public programs to nourish children and preserve cultural heritage for future generations.

    🧭 Action recipe· Forest and Food Heritage

    Revive Our Food, Revive Our Culture

    By embracing our ancestral foods, language, and traditions, we can nourish our children and strengthen our community's identity and well-being.

    🧭 Action recipe· Forest and Food Heritage

    Nourish Futures with Our Native Grains

    To preserve our health and culture, we advocate for the inclusion of native, nutritious grains in public food programs.

    Where these voices come from

    ODISHA, INDIA95 voices JHARKHAND, INDIA3 voices MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA3 voices CHHATTISGARH, INDIA3 voices

    Voices here

    👦 🍎 💪

    It would be good if nutritious food is given to school children in their mid-day meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🌾 👧 👍

    It would be good if foods like ragi, millet, and Sua are given to school children in the mid-day meal two days a week.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧒 🥣 💪

    It would be good to provide food like millet (ragi) and pulses to school children twice a week during their midday meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧒 🌾 💪

    It would be good to give school children ragi and millet-based food two days a week in their midday meals.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍎 😊

    It would be good to provide food to our children through mid-day meals at school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍽️ 😊

    It would be good if some food is given to the school children during the midday meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🌽 🥣 💪

    It would be beneficial if food items like corn and millet porridge are provided to school children for two days during the mid-day meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🌾 🧒 💪

    It would be good to provide millet-based food to school children for lunch.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍽️ 😊

    It would be good if our school children were given food during lunchtime.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍲 ❤️

    It would be good to provide traditional food to school children in their mid-day meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧒 🥘 👍

    It would be good if our school children are given traditional food for two days in their mid-day meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🥕 👍

    It would be good if children were given local food twice a week during their mid-day meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧑‍🎓 🥣 🌾

    It would be good to provide millets like Suan, Mandia, Kangu, Bargudi Badi to school children for three days a week in their midday meals.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧑‍🎓 🍲 😋

    It would be good if our school children were given traditional food for their midday meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🥘 👍

    It would be good if children are given traditional food three days a week in the midday meal at school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🥕 🍽️ 👧

    It would be good to serve local food to school children for midday meals.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🏫 🌾 👍

    It would be good to provide millet-based meals twice a week for lunch at school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🍚 🧒 ⭐

    It would be good if traditional food is given priority to children in mid-day meals at school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍲 💪

    It would be good to give traditional food to children in school. Midday meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🍲 🏫 🧒

    It would be good if traditional food was given to school children.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🏡 🍎 🧒

    It would be good if local food were given to children in our school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🍎 🏫 ❤️

    It would be good if local food is given to children in schools.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    👧 🍽️ 💊

    It would be good if we could also provide nutritional supplements along with the midday meal to children in Mandia schools.

    — Padmini Bhoi

    🥚 🧒 💪

    It would be good if eggs and nutritious food are given to school children.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧑‍🤝‍🧑 🥕 👍

    It would be good to provide food to school children three days a week. It would be good to provide local food.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🍲 🧒 👍

    It would be good if traditional food is served to children for lunch at school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍲 👍

    It would be good if children are given regional food in school lunch.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧒 🍲 😊

    It would be good to provide traditional food to the children of our region in school midday meals.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🍚 🧒 🏫

    It would be good to provide traditional food to school children two days a week for lunch.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🏫 🍲 😊

    It would be good to provide traditional food to our school children in school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Lobersing (Phuntsokling Tibetan settlement), Gajapati, Odisha

    🏫 🍲 😊

    It would be good if our school children were given traditional food for lunch.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🍎 🧒 ❤️

    It would be good to serve local food to the children of our school during lunchtime.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍲 ❤️

    It would be good to give traditional food to our school children.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍲 💪

    It would be good to provide traditional food to school children for lunch two days a week.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🍲 🏫 👍

    It would be good if traditional food is served to children twice a week in our school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    👧 🍲 💪

    It would be good to provide traditional food to the school children of Amanchal twice a week.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🏛️ 🍲 🧑‍🎓

    It would be good if the government provides food to all students through the Midday Meal (MDM) scheme.

    — Priti majhi

    🧒 🍲 😊

    It would be good to provide traditional food to school children during lunch time.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🌽 🍽️ 🧒

    It would be good to serve local food during lunch for school children.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍲 🍽️

    It would be good to provide traditional food to children for their midday meal.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    Sources & credits

    The voices in this theme were gathered by these organisations through their community reports.

    • Atmashakti Trust145 voices

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