The holiday season is a time to celebrate. It brings a sense of joy and excitement to many families, and it is an opportunity for charitable giving. By supporting PRASAD this holiday season, you can help ensure children receive proper nutrition, so they can grow and thrive. 

India is home to 33% of the world’s malnourished children. In the Tansa Valley, where many families live at subsistence level, without the means to provide adequate nutrition, malnutrition rates are even more startling – 67%.

PRASAD Chikitsa’s Nutrition Program helps to mitigate and prevent childhood malnutrition. Through village Anganwadis (preschools), children up to age six and pregnant and nursing mothers receive milk and nutritional snacks six days a week. Children also receive regular check-ups and are measured against World Health Organization growth standards.

The Nutrition Program impacts the lives of children like young siblings, Manas and Manavi. Three-year-old Manas and four-year-old Manavi live with their parents on a small subsistence farm. Realizing that she needed help to improve her children’s health, their mother sought out PRASAD Chikitsa, and the family enrolled in the Nutrition Program. In January 2023, both children were malnourished. Manas was a mere 15.5 lbs. and Manavi only 20.9 lbs.

In addition to warm milk and snacks, the children received multivitamins and their mother learned about the importance of providing a balanced nutritious diet through our health talks. By May 2023, Manas weighed 22 lbs. and Manavi 24 lbs. – both had achieved normal growth levels!

Your donation will help more children like Manas and Manavi get the nutritional support they need to thrive. A gift of $110 provides nutritional support for one child for one year in India.