A dimension within Healthy Child Food Programs
Focusing on nutritious school meals, particularly the inclusion of millet and its impact on child health and food security.
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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.
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
To provide more nutrition for the physical and mental development of children, ragi and mandua should be included in school midday meals.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
To provide maximum nutrition for the physical and mental development of children, finger millet will be included in school mid-day meals or traditional foods, followed by our various...
— Rajesh Mallik · Boudh, Odisha
Millet is a nutritious and protein-rich food. We can provide millet to children in school midday meals because it is nutritious.
— Padmini Bhoi
It would be good to provide millet-based food to school children for lunch.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
Nutritious food items like ragi should be introduced in mid-day meals and PDS.
— Sunil oraon · Gumla, Jharkhand
If ragi, millet, drumstick leaves, and jute leaves were included in the school midday meal, it would provide more nutritious food to children.
— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha
It would be good to provide nutritious food like finger millet in meals.
— PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, 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
To provide more nutrition for the physical and mental development of children, ragi porridge, mandru, etc. are provided in the school's midday meal.
— gobardhan pangi
Mandua, a traditional food item, should be included in the Mid-Day Meal for the physical and mental development of children in schools.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
Hemant Sha village Nilaji: Forest-based millets and Gurji traditional food should be included in PDS and mid-day meals. This will help in the mental and physical development of children.
— RUDRA PRASAD BAG · Jagānpadar, Nuapada, Odisha
The PDS midday meal provided millet as nutritious food for children to eat.
— Kusha Mahakud
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 millets like Suan, Mandia, Kangu, Bargudi Badi to school children for three days a week in their midday meals.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
Nutritious forest produce, such as millet, will be provided to children as part of their midday meals through the Public Distribution System.
— Padmini Bhoi
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
If the nutritious 'char laddoo' made from Mahua found in our forests is included in the school's mid-day meal, children will be nourished.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
Our traditional nutritious food like kodo, kutki, maize, sorghum, wheat, etc., as khichdi and dalia should be given in mid-day meals, and it would be great if the government also includes such grains in PDS.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
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 food items like mahua ladoo made from mahua found in our forests in the school's midday meal can provide nutritious food to children.
— Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
Balanced and nutritious food should be provided in ragi (marwa) flour to promote the mental and physical development of children.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
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
In the mid-day meal, our Anganwadi center should prepare and provide various items using kodo, ragi, and Guruji's food, so that children get their vitamins.
— Ulapi Sahu · Patnāgarh, Balangir, Odisha
Providing millet-based food to children two days a week in their midday meal will keep them healthy.
— 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 to provide food to our children through mid-day meals at school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Mohana, 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
The most nutritious locally available moong dal and urad dal should be included in PDS and mid-day meals.
— AbhiLL Ipsa
It would be good to provide traditional food to school children in their mid-day meal.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
Including Mahula laddus made from Mahula found in our forests in school's midday meals can provide nutritious food to children.
— Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
Including ladoos made from Mahua, a food found in our forests, in the school's mid-day meal will be nutritious for children.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
Providing traditional food to school children in their mid-day meal will keep them healthy.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
School children will have good health if nutritious food is provided in their midday meals.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Adaba, Gajapati, Odisha
If food items like millet, maize, and corn are provided in the school's midday meal, health will remain good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK · Gajapati, Odisha
If we talk about the most nutritious food, if the government provides our forest products like Mahul, Char, and Kendu as food in MDM (Mid-Day Meal), then children will eat it and become intelligent.
— Priti majhi
It would be good to provide millet-based meals twice a week for lunch at school.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
Local forest produce such as Kendu, Char, Jamun berries, Sarala leaves, and Mahul contain nutrients. To provide more nutrition for the physical and mental development of children, traditional foods like millet porridge should be included in school mid-day meals. During festivals, do not include packaged food and food from markets/shops to offer to guests.
— DASHARATH SINGH · Jamunkira, Sambalpur, Odisha
By including finger millet in the midday meal, one can benefit from nutritious food.
— Lily Barik · Kalahandi, Odisha
Including millet, foxtail millet, and sorghum twice a week in the school's midday meal would keep health good.
— SUSANTA PATTNAYAK
