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Monday, January 24, 2011
PULSE POLIO PROGRAM AT BANJARA COLONY
Dear boys and girls
Yesterday (21st Jan. 2011), HEARTS Trust members GK Rao, Srinivasa Reddy and Ravi Kumar have participated in the Govt's Pulse Polio Immunization Programme. 12 students from Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology (VJIT) led by Siva Kumar (the only girl student being Bindu) and 16 students from Anadha Vidyarthi Griha, Narasimhapuri colony, Kothapet, Hyderabad have also participated in the Pulse Polio Programme at Banjara colony, Hayathnagar.
The program started at 8.30 AM at the Anganwadi chool in Banjara Colony by two nursing students and the anganwadi teacher Ms Vijaya. The target children were 322 given in the chart. All the students and the HEARTS members divided themselves into 6 groups and visited each and every house and sensitized the parents to bring their children to the polio camp for immunization.
By 12.50 PM, 338 children were immunized to our pleasant surprise. Some of the children from the surrounding colony SBI colony also were brought for immunization.
HEARTS Trust thanks all the children from VJIT and Anadha Vidyardhi Griha for their passionate involvement in the noble program and for making it a success.
HEARTS Trust also thanks all its members, associates and wellwishers for their good wishes although they could not participate physically in the program.
GK Rao
Sunday, January 9, 2011
RELATION BETWEEN MALNUTRITION AND FOOD SECURITY
Dear brothers and sisters, 9th Jan. 2011
By now, you will appreciate the need to reduce the extreme malnutrition of 46% among the children of India. Reducing malnutrition will improve child health, reduce child mortality, enable children to go to school, and to gain productive employment.
Availability of nutritious food and safe water will enable the girl child to grow well, go to school, take up gainful employment or vocation, and give her strength to bear and give birth to healthy children. It will also reduce malnutrition in pregnant and nursing mothers and reduce maternal mortality.
Better nutrition will enable the people to cope with environmental stresses and climate change in a better way.
You will appreciate that, in this way, better nutrition will naturally lead to higher national economic growth.
Again, reducing malnutrition is dependent on food security. If sufficient food is not available in the country, prices of food grains will increase, and the poor can’t afford to purchase food grains.
Food security is again dependent on sustainability of agriculture.
This again is dependent on good agricultural production, productivity, remunerative prices to farmers, adequate inputs like seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, technical assistance, soil testing facilities at reasonable rates or on subsidy. Storage or refrigeration facilities, transportation facilities, marketing facilities, proper trading facilities etc. for the grain produced and necessary policy support etc.
In case of natural calamities or crop losses, loan waiver, loan rescheduling, interest waiver or interest subsidy etc.
Helping the farmer in times of natural calamities is not only helping the farmer to cope with the vagaries of nature, but helping food security and helping ourselves to obtain food at reasonable prices and for ensuring nutritional security particularly for the poorer sections. Otherwise, food prices will become unaffordable to common people and lead to social unrest.
Again, to ensure sustainability of agriculture, sustainable agricultural practices need to be adopted, like:
Organic farming
Non-pesticide based crop management
Integrated Pest, insect and weed management – environmental sustainability
Mixed cropping and alternate cropping
Soil erosion control and fertility management
Environment and ecology management - to ensure proper pollination
Integrated water shed management
Integrated Poultry management
High yielding varieties
Forest management – to ensure biodiversity and supply of diverse seed varieties
I think now you can appreciate the importance of food security of the nation to nutritional security of the large masses, particularly the children of the country.
Now, friends, do you want to become part of the campaign to reduce malnutrition in the children of India? Come, let us work hand in hand.