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    The cloudNutrition & Food SecurityTraditional School MealsLocal & Traditional MealsLocal School LunchesMillets for ChildrenMillet-Rich School Food
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    Millet-Rich School Food

    This theme highlights the role of millets in school food programs to improve child nutrition and promote healthy eating habits.

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    Nearby, the primary concern revolves around enhancing the nutritional content of school midday meals. Many submissions emphasize the importance of traditional and local foods, like millets and ragi, for improving children's health and well-being 💡. There's a strong suggestion to incorporate these nutrient-rich options more frequently, ideally several times a week, to ensure consistent benefits and support physical and mental development 🛣️. The collective voice advocates for a shift towards more wholesome, indigenous ingredients within the existing school meal programs 💧.

    Dominant Themes

    Midday Meal Nutrition
    Inclusion of Traditional Foods
    Millet and Ragi Benefits
    Children's Health Improvement
    Local Food Integration

    Actionable Recommendations

    • 🌾 🍲 💪Integrate a variety of traditional and locally sourced grains, such as millets (ragi, jowar, bajra) and pulses, into the school midday meal menu at least three times a week.
    • 📚 💡 👨Develop and disseminate educational materials for parents and school staff on the nutritional benefits of traditional foods and their role in children's development.
    • 😋 👍 🗣Conduct taste-testing and feedback sessions with students to ensure the inclusion of traditional foods is appealing and enjoyable, fostering wider acceptance.

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    🧭 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 Future Generations with Forest Gifts and Ancestral Tongues

    We ensure our children's well-being and cultural continuity by teaching them about the forest's bounty and the richness of our ancestral language and traditions.

    Where these voices come from

    ODISHA, INDIA97 voices MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA5 voices CHHATTISGARH, INDIA4 voices JHARKHAND, INDIA4 voices UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA3 voices

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    🌾 🧒 💪

    If food like ragi, suva, and millet is given to school children for two days a week in their mid-day meal, their health will remain good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧒 🌾 💪

    If children are given millet and tribal food two days a week in school midday meals, their health will remain good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🌾 🧒 💪

    Providing millet-based food to children two days a week in their midday meal will keep them healthy.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🌾 👧 💪

    Giving millet and ragi-based food to school children twice a week will keep them healthy.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🌾 💪

    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

    👧 🌾 💪

    If school children are given foods like ragi, foxtail millet, pearl millet, and kodo millet three days a week, their health will be good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🥣 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧑‍🎓 🥣 💪

    Our school children will remain healthy if they are given ragi-based food twice a week.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🍲 🧒 ❤️

    Providing traditional food twice a week to children in school's midday meal will improve their health.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    👧 🌾 💪

    If children in our school are provided with foods like ragi and jowar in their lunch twice a week, their health will improve.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🌾 👧 👍

    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

    🌾 🥣 💪

    Including millet, foxtail millet, and sorghum twice a week in the school's midday meal would keep health good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧒 🌾 💪

    Our children will remain healthy if they are given millet food twice a week.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🏫 🌾 👍

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🧒 🥗 💪

    If children are given other food during lunchtime two days a week, their health will be good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🌾 🏫 💪

    Providing millet ladoo and janna mua three times a week in the school's midday meal will keep health good.

    — 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

    👶 🍲 💪

    If children are given traditional cooked food two days a week, their health will remain good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    👶 🍲 💪

    If children are given initial cooked food twice a week, their health will remain good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🍲 👧 👍

    It would be good to give traditional food to children twice a week in school.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    👧 🌾 💪

    School children will be provided with foods like millets, maize, foxtail millet, and little millet twice a week in their midday 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

    🏫 🥣 💪

    If children in school are given millet and millet cakes daily as part of their midday meal, they will maintain their nutritional intake.

    — Bisendra Naik · Kalahandi, 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 school children for lunch two days a week.

    — 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

    🍲 🧒 💪

    If traditional food is given as a midday meal to school children, they will maintain good health.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🍲 🧒 💪

    Providing traditional food to school children in their mid-day meal will keep them healthy.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🥘 👍

    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

    🌽 🏫 💪

    If food items like millet, maize, and corn are provided in the school's midday meal, health will remain good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    👶 🌾 💪

    Children's health will improve if they are given cereal-based food for their midday meal. Giving cereal-based food will maintain good health.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK

    🍲 🧒 💪

    If traditional food is given to children in midday meals, their health will remain good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🧒 🍎 💪

    School children will have good health if nutritious food is provided in their midday meals.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🥕 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 💪

    If local food is provided to school children in their mid-day meal, their health will be good.

    — 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

    🧒 🍲 👍

    If children are given food like Kangu, Jannasua in school, their health will be good.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha

    🌾 🧒 💪

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    🍲 👧 💪

    If we give traditional food to school children for lunch, they will remain healthy.

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha

    🍲 🏫 👍

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

    — SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha

    Sources & credits

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

    • Atmashakti Trust144 voices

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