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Food & Nutrition | Food For Education | Mid Day Meal India

 

Food and nutrition is an important area of focus for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives in India. Here are some key points about food and nutrition CSR in India:

  1. Malnutrition: India has a high prevalence of malnutrition, with many children and adults suffering from undernourishment and micronutrient deficiencies.
  2. Food security: CSR initiatives can address food security by supporting food distribution programs, promoting sustainable agriculture practices, and reducing food waste.
  3. Nutrition education: CSR initiatives can focus on providing nutrition education to vulnerable populations to improve their understanding of healthy eating practices.
  4. Support for small farmers: Supporting small-scale farmers through CSR initiatives can help to promote sustainable agriculture and improve the quality and availability of fresh produce.
  5. Partnerships with NGOs: Many companies partner with NGOs and other organizations to implement their food and nutrition initiatives. This can help to leverage expertise and ensure that the initiatives are effectively targeted.
  6. Monitoring and evaluation: Companies should establish a monitoring and evaluation mechanism to track the progress and impact of their food and nutrition initiatives. This can help to ensure that the funds are being utilized effectively and efficiently.
  7. Reporting requirements: Companies are required to report on their CSR activities in their annual report, stating the amount spent on CSR activities, the manner in which the funds were spent, and the impact of the activities on society.

Overall, food and nutrition is an important area for CSR activities in India, and companies can play a key role in promoting sustainable agriculture, improving food security, and reducing malnutrition through targeted initiatives and partnerships.

CREATING SOCIAL IMPACT WITH NUTRITION AND ERADICATING HUNGER 

The ‘Food for Education project is an initiative to tackle hunger amongst the poorest children through school feeding programs and a community kitchen model. The project aims to transform lives with the foundation to provide access to the most basic need of food for children in need to help them choose and realize a better future. One core challenge we have taken up in mission mode at Responsenet is the need to fight hunger, especially for vulnerable children for whom we connect fresh meals. We serve those who need these meals the most every day to help them realize their potential and focus on child protection. This has the highest potential to impact children’s lives and help them stay healthy, learn and stay in school to realize their potential.

We partner with government, companies, individuals, and NGO partners in providing end-to-end implementation of feeding projects on daily basis. The approach and processes we follow include need assessment, partnerships development, food procurement & logistics, warehousing, distribution, preparation of fresh meals in localized kitchens, feeding, monitoring & evaluation, and documentation to reporting is what makes the functioning and operation of the project successful.

The key differentiator of the ‘Food for Education project is that we provide food assistance to those children who do not get access to the Mid Day Meal scheme under the National Programme of Nutritional Support for Primary Education.

The second key differentiator is that the project focuses more on the quality than the quantity of food served. The project has shown a positive association with increases in enrolments and attendance, and improvement in health which also means lesser visits to the doctor and more energy to play. enhancement of Neurological Development, children are getting mainstreamed on an annual basis, families are able to optimize their earnings and invest their savings for indirect benefits of the children, and most importantly have significantly shown an increase in the Happiness Quotient of Child which is the most crucial of all.

The qualitative impact created: 1) Better attendance through free meal programs (seen as an incentive by the students and their families. 2) Improved Behaviour: as fewer disciplinary actions were seen against the students studying in a particular school 3) School feeding initiatives play a key role in helping children realize their potential, both for themselves and their communities. Investing in the human capital development of children is among the most effective and productive investments 4) Empowering girls: School health and nutrition, including school meals, provide an incentive for families to send girls back to school, help girls stay in school, especially into adolescence, effectively preventing early marriage and delaying first pregnancy, both of which can trap women into poverty and social exclusion. 5) Improved Concentration: owing to more energy and attention span. 6) Better Academic Performance: fewer children were facing failure in the curriculum.

With the mission to work on the fundamental need for food for children, the project has helped build a better future by ensuring children stay in schools, learn, play, stay healthy and safe, and continue to fight against Hunger across India

The project works with the support of companies & implementation partners to replicate the model and help significantly evolve into a network of organically operated feeding centers catering to the health, education, and safety of children to help them realize their potential for a better future with the foundation of creating access to food. Responsenet has worked with many companies and has provided impactful Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) implementation, consulting, and planning across industry sectors for PSUs and Private Sector across India. With over 4000 network partners, a strong grass-roots network and implementation experience of over 15 years Responsenet has impacted millions through its integrated development approach.

 
Impact Statement
 

Delhi FoodBank focusses on children up to school going ages attending nonformal schools across India with the objective to better their health, education, and safety.Delhi FoodBank works with implementation partners to replicate the model and help significantly evolve into a network of organically operated feeding centers catering to the health, education, and safety of children to help them realize their potential for a better future with the foundation of creating access to food.

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Our Mission
Our mission is to work on the fundamental need of food for children to help build a better future by ensuring children stay in schools, learn, play, stay healthy and safe.
 
VISION Every individual in India having access to food.  Feeding Hope, Fighting Hunger across India.
 
Why and Who do we serve?
With the fact that food is a daily need every day for each one of us, we address this basic need of serving meals every day.  Our Food for Education initiative reaches out to over 15,000 children in the age group of 6-14 years across 11 cities across India daily.  This helps ensure parents send children to school. This way the children are secure and saved from vulnerabilities.
 
Where do we serve?
These meals are being supported in Shelter Homes, Non-Formal Education Centres, and Crèches in Slums across India.
 
What do we serve?
Many times, we are serving the very first meal of the day that a child eats.  Following is the menu list of items served for Breakfast and Lunch daily:
 
Breakfast Program (All meals prepared on site)
 
• Fruits, Milk & biscuit
 
• Poha, Idli Sambhar
 
• Wheat Porridge, Egg & bread
 
Lunch Program (All meals prepared on site)
 
• Rice and Dal
 
• Add on includes Salad, Paneer, Halwa, Jeera Aloo etc
 
• Milk Program, 200 ml.
 
Impact Indicators 
Number of meals fed every day.
Increase in enrollments and attendance. This helps build better futures and also helps children stay safe in schools.
Improvement in health which also means lessor visits to the doctor and more energy to play.
Enhancement of Neurological Development.
Number of children mainstreamed on an annual basis
Families and feeding sites save money as food is being provided free of cost. This helps them to invest this saved money for indirect benefits of the children..
Increase in Happiness Quotient of Child most crucial
 
 
 

At responsenet, we believe that collective abilities can make a lasting difference to the lives of millions with the right partnerships for community-centric interventions. A focus we have in all the work we do is the mission to work closely with those in need and our partners to create a lasting impact on the lives we can touch every day. We work across India in our projects and help create, promote and supplement partnerships to better lives every day.

Started in 2007 out of the needs for accelerating innovative solutions, we are working to address the most pressing challenges affecting communities every day with innovation, technology, and partnerships.

We partner with government, companies, individuals and NGO partners providing end to end implementation of projects. We work closely with partners to achieve this goal and serve communities within India through various CSR program implementations.

Our strong teams have diverse skill-sets with experience across the development and private sector with a passion to design, implement and work for community-centric implementations with creativity to implement solutions for diverse geographies and stakeholders across India for a better tomorrow for those we work for.

One core challenge we have taken up in mission mode at Responsenet is the need to fight hunger especially of vulnerable children for whom we connect fresh meals. We serve those who need these meals the most every day to help realize their potential and focus on child protection. This has the highest potential to create an impact on the lives of children and help them stay healthy, learn and stay in schools to realize their potential. With the fundamental thought that a “Hungry Child Can Not Learn”, We help ensure they are not out of schools and
learning safely every day.

We feed meals daily across India in Jharkhand, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Chandigarh, Kerala, Assam, Jharkhand Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh among other states with the aim to transform lives with the foundation to provide access for the most basic need of food for children in need to help them chose and realize a better future.