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Happy Meal
Provision of meals
As most of the children after a disaster can be in a bad shape both mentally and physically it is crucial to take care of their nutritional needs. Since the schools are closed, the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) supply also gets discontinued depriving students access to nutritious meals. We aim at making Interim school space a healthier place for these affected children.
These children consume half of their daily calories at school, making it an ideal place to promote a healthier diet. Approximately one-third of the food children consume is at school. For this reason, it is important that children have a daily balanced diet, either through packed healthy snacks and lunches or through a healthy meal plan.
Interim schooling programme will be providing children with small healthy snack kits that they would have in the school itself. Since, a lot is going on within their homes and families there is a high possibility of their diets being ignored by their parents/caregivers. So, the happy meal kit is a way of providing these children with wholesome nutrients.
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Clean Drinking water
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Cyclones affect the drinking water conditions across all the regions. Source contamination, water scarcity and inadequate drinking water are major concerns. Pipe Water Supply (PWS) systems are almost defunct in all villages, largely due to power supply disruptions. Most shelters do not have water storage facilities. As per reports of SAVE THE CHILDREN, decrease in groundwater levels has affected the availability of drinking water and dehydration was observed among children. It was also observed that children faced difficulties in availing medical treatment post a climate-related disaster due to inaccessibility of hospitals in some regions. This was in addition to the difficulties they faced in navigating their way to schools.
UNICEF has approached a way forward towards clean water for drinking by helping development of technologies, like drought-resistant deep wells. Techniques like hand pump chlorination were used by volunteers of SEED. So similar techniques can be used for providing clean drinking water in these Interim Schools.