CR Teachers Start Health Awareness Programme for CR Students

Calcutta Rescue is teaching parents how to cook cheap nutritious food and has just expanded its health screening to cover all students up to the age of 19.

The charity’s chief executive, Jaydeep Chakraborty, announced the new measures after visiting a number of slums to hear for himself how the parents of CR schoolchildren were coping.

Since the start of the crisis, Calcutta Rescue has been providing them with extra food to ensure that children continued to get the level of nutrition they would have got from the school meals it provides. But it is clear that many families are still not eating enough healthy food.
 
Jaydeep said: “They are going through a very difficult situation. Most families don’t have work or very low paid work. Many are eating only one or two meals a day. Most have reduced the amount of protein they eat to save money.”

“We had a meeting with our doctors beforehand. They advised us how we can make simple but very nutritious meals with low-cost food items,” said Ananya Chatterjee, the head of the education of Calcutta Rescue.

At the same time, CR has expanded its health screening programme for students and has raised the upper age limit from 12 to 19. It has also restarted the deworming, vaccination and dental checkups that were stopped last year due to the pandemic.

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