Community Level Nutrition Workshop on 13th December 2008 in village Bandhwari

A nutrition workshop on 13th December 2008 was organized in village Bandhwari. "Santulit Aahar – Phalta Phulta Parivar "was the theme of the workshop. Sukarya chairperson Ms. Meera Sathpathy was the chief guest of the function. The main objective of the workshop was to develop awareness on what constitutes a healthy dietary pattern for different age-groups and motivate the participants to adopt these. The whole session was divided into five different segments on the basis of age groups. We invited five eminent Nutritionists who are working in various reputed hospitals. Each nutritionist spoke on ideal dietary patterns according to different age group. Almost 250 people attended the session. Apart from the village people, government officials from the health department were present in the session. List of speakers included Anshu Kumra, Consultant Nutritionist, Priti Kulshrestha Consultant Nutritionist, Jyoti Arora – Nutritionist Artemis, Shushma – Nutritionist Umkal and Aruna Nutritionist Kalyani Hospital.

In this workshop a book published by Sukarya "Prabhavshali Vyanjan Vidhia" was also released. This is a book written in Hindi and contains a list of iron rich recipes.

The Chairperson addressed the Sukarya staff members, consultants, and volunteers. She made an appeal to the Donors, Funding agencies and associated organisations to continue their support to Sukarya in its endeavours. She also thanked all the donors and volunteers for their continuous support. Sukarya family renewed their oath to work towards a ‘Behtar Swasthya, Behtar Samaj.’