Overview
United Way Mumbai’s Project Poshan aims to make villages and communities malnutrition-free. CITI has joined hands with United Way to adopt 5 villages near Mumbai and deliver positive outcomes to children and mothers for three years.
Strategies
The project has three key strategies:
- Helping undernourished children fight malnutrition by providing medical care and nutrition support to undernourished children through home-based interventions.
- Preventing further incidences of undernutrition in the village. We will do this by focusing on the first 1000 days of a child’s life and improving the health of mothers and women of childbearing age.
- Creating an enabling environment for children to grow. We will do this by building the capacities of local stakeholders such as Anganwadi workers and encouraging community ownership.
Outreach
5
Villages in Karjat, Maharashtra
500
Malnourished Children
25
Severely Malnourished Children
38
Pregnant Women
48
Lactating Mothers
United Way, Mumbai is a non-profit organization working in urban and rural communities across India to improve the well-being of the underserved community across multiple focus areas such as Education, Health, Income, Public Safety, and Environment - the building blocks for a good quality of life and a strong community. It is a part of a 130+ year-old international network spread across 41 countries. Through their network they raise over $5 billion annually and impact up to 50 million people every year.
For more information visit: unitedwaymumbai.org
