City Desk :
Speakers at a day-long nutrition fair stressed for ensuring child nutrition for their proper physical, mental and psycho-social growth through using locally available food ingredient instead of procuring from market.
Fulbari Area Development Programme (ADP) of World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) organised the Nutrition Fair-2014 at Jagannathpur Junior High School ground under Fulbari upazila in Dinajpur on Monday with the theme of ‘Child Nutrition is Beside Home.’
Panikkata Community Clinic under Eluari union in the upazila and Prottyasha Sanchoy O Wrindan Samobai Samity extended cooperation in arranging the fair.
The fair was organised to create social awareness about child health, nutritious foods and ways for preventing child maturation through demonstrating different available nutritional foodstuffs and inputs available in rural areas.
Six stalls namely ‘Protein’, ‘Starch’, ‘Vitamin’, ‘Water’, ‘Fat’ and ‘Mineral Salts’ were set up in the fair introducing concerned foodstuffs among more than 1,000 participating mothers, students and local people of the area.
With Chairperson of Prottyasha Sanchoy O Wrindan Samobai Samity Mousumi Begum in the chair, Chairman, Eluary Union Parishad Alhaj Nabiul Islam attended and addressed as chief guest.
Nutritionist of Fulabri Upazila Health Complex Azizul Haque, Upazila Sanitary Inspector Nazrul Islam, Upazila Family Planning Officer Ismail Hossain, union parishad member Mrs Parul Akhter, Chairman Jagannathpur Junior High School Managing Committee Mafiz Uddin Sarker, Community Clinic Health Care Provider Zahidul Islam and Programme Officer of Fulbari ADP of WVB Lal Thuai Ngak Bawm addressed as the special guests.
The speakers stressed for creating awareness among the rural people, especially mothers, on proper selection of nutritious foodstuffs, including vegetables, to overcome deficiency of protein, vitamins, iodine, iron and minerals for the children.
The chief guest said many babies, children, mothers, pregnant women and adolescents are suffering from malnutrition due to lack of adequate social awareness, knowledge and inappropriate food habits that cause subsequent complications.
At the end, 22 mothers of Eluari union were awarded for their best selection of nutritious foodstuffs and taking proper care of their babies and children, ensuring timely vaccinations, providing de-worming tablets and treatments to keep them healthier.
