A dimension within Local School Lunches
Explores the benefits of millets and healthy foods in school meals to improve child nutrition and health.
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By incorporating local, traditional grains like ragi and millet into school lunch programs, communities can significantly improve children's health and well-being.
By embracing our ancestral foods, language, and traditions, we can nourish our children and strengthen our community's identity and well-being.
Our community advocates for the integration of traditional, locally sourced foods into public programs to nourish children and preserve cultural heritage for future generations.
To preserve our health and culture, we advocate for the inclusion of native, nutritious grains in public food programs.
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
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
Providing millet-based food to children two days a week in their midday meal will keep them healthy.
— 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
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 provide food like millet (ragi) and pulses to school children twice a week during their midday meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
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 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
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 to provide millet-based meals twice a week for lunch at school.
— 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
Our school children will remain healthy if they are given ragi-based food twice a week.
— 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
Providing millet ladoo and janna mua three times a week in the school's midday meal will keep health good.
— 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 school are given millet and millet cakes daily as part of their midday meal, they will maintain their nutritional intake.
— Bisendra Naik · Kalahandi, 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
If food items like millet, maize, and corn are provided in the school's midday meal, health will remain good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
Our children will remain healthy if they are given millet food twice a week.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
If children are given other food during lunchtime two days a week, their health will be good.
— 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 to give traditional food to children twice a week in school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good to provide traditional food to school children two days a week for lunch.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
If traditional food is given as a midday meal to school children, they will maintain good health.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good to provide traditional food to school children for lunch two days a week.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
School children will have good health if nutritious food is provided in their midday meals.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
Providing traditional food to school children in their mid-day meal will keep them healthy.
— 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
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 traditional food to the school children of Amanchal twice a week.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, 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 local food is provided to school children in their mid-day meal, their health will be good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
Millet is an indigenous food. If we provide millet to children as a midday meal in schools, their physical and mental wellbeing will improve.
— Padmini Bhoi
If children are given food like Kangu, Jannasua in school, their health will be good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
If children are given initial cooked food twice a week, their health will remain good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
If traditional food is given to children in midday meals, their health will remain good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, Gajapati, Odisha
If children are given traditional cooked food two days a week, their health will remain good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
It would be good if nutritious food is given to school children in their mid-day meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
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