Anganwadi is a type of rural mother and child care centre in India
that were started by the Indian government in 1975 as part of the
Integrated Child Development Services program to combat child hunger
and malnutrition. A part of the Indian public health care system,
these Anganwadi centres provides basic health care in Indian
villages. Basic health care activities include contraceptive
counseling and supply, nutrition education and supplementation, as
well as pre-school activities. These centers provide supplementary
nutrition, non-formal pre-school education, nutrition and health
education, immunization, rehydration salts, basic medicines, health
check-up and referral services of which later three services are
provided in convergence with public health systems.
It’s very sad to say many of our AWC centers in Manvi do not have
these basic facilities and the lack of minimal infrastructure, such
as kid’s benches, table, stools carpets; teachers chair black
board’s drinking water, limited space, lack of playgrounds, teaching
materials and the AWCs find unhygienic conditions. As a result many
of poor parents are not willing to send their children to AWC
centers. Vimukti strongly recommends looking into the matter very
seriously.
