In India's capital, pubs, malls, gyms have reopened, but govt creches have not. @radhikabordia found growing hunger, malnutrition & death in five slums, as workers lose jobs & their already at-risk children get lesser food than before the #pandemic. https://www.article-14.com/post/hunger-threatens-india-malls-open-but-anganwadis-stay-shut
The anganwadi was established under the central government’s Integrated Child Development Scheme nearly 45 years ago and is now one of the world’s largest early childhood development programmes, providing supplementary nutrition to children under six and pregnant and lactating women, apart from other services, such as early education, immunization, monitoring of health parameters. Those delivering these services–the anganwadi workers–are trained women from the community. More than a million anganwadis across the country are among India’s frontline health workers, serving over 80 million children younger than 6 years and over 19 million pregnant women and lactating mothers.