Health & Nutrition Garden
Project Community
The target community for this project is small and marginal families living in remote villages. There are underprivileged families who face a wider scale lack of access to nutrition and food diversity. Members from low-income tribal and indigenous families in various remote regions of the junction of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, South Rajasthan, Madhubani District of Bihar
These are the families with low income and not able to ever increase food thus not able to access and consume recommended and even bare minimum fruit diversity. Similarly, they are not able to access quality health services. Even if fruits are available to them the quantity is not good and quantity is never enough to fulfill the nutritional requirement. Various government schemes either provide supplementary nutrition or for providing micro-nutrition supplementation programs which are not sustainable as they are fully dependent on funding from international donations or continued support.
Contrary to this all such remote regions used to have one or other kinds of fruits which were sufficient to provide desired nutrients, but with time and poor marketability, they are slowly-slowly removed from the list of community list. There are many fruit plants that can be grown with limited external input.
Therefore, EEF has planned to work off these issues of poor access to nutrient needs of poor communities and management of health through preventive health intake, through long-term sustainable solutions for access to fruits.
Objectives and Actions
Improved access to diverse nutrition for underprivileged resource-poor indigenous families in remote regions.
Improved diversity within the food basket of Indigenous community in rural India
New generations are able to recognize the traditional richness of the region and India.
Reviving low-cost approach of preventive health management system.
Outcome
Small and marginal indigenous families have homestead Health and Nutrition gardens with multiple fruit plants, leading to increased participation of fruits in a balanced diet.
Indigenous families have around the year access to seasonal fruits with the lowest possible food milage.
Traditional Health system revival with preventive measures
An improved rural ecosystem with enriched food and plant diversity.
Traditional food and vegetation diversities of specific regions are revived.
Quality seedlings and planting materials are available to small & marginal families.
