Homegrown  Nutrition  WASH  Advocacy: a Major Ingredients to save lives 

Nutrition being the major threat in rural communities has never been addressed by regular integrated development actions. But, in our SLIO program nutrition as the component has been addressed through different activities like awareness generation through wall painting, promoting nutritional garden at the household level, and developing nutritional crops at farmer’s field school point.

Apart from all the above, there had been initiatives in awareness generation with a wall painting on nutritional slogans and pictures at strategic locations of the program area. As planned, 8 wall paintings have been completed along with small hoardings in almost all program villages with different messages on nutrition, sanitation, savings, and other developmental issues in the program area.

Several discussions were also carried out during village meetings and visits to make the program participants aware of those wall writings and ensure practicing some small habits in their household and community level as well. It has also been discussed during CRP orientation training to develop understanding among the key facilitator at the grassroots.