Gurgaon's Diksha School Fights Malnutrition By Feeding Mid-Day Meals To 400 Children
Diksha School, a non-governmental initiative in Gurgaon on the outskirts of Delhi, provides wholesome mid-day meals to 400 plus students from poor families in the neighbourhood with twin goals of improving literacy and nutrition status among children.
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Diksha school was co-founded in 2008 by Captain Rajesh Sharan, a former Air Force pilot, and Shanta Sharan in Gurgaon when they observed how some children from poor families in their neighbourhood were not being able to go to school and whiled away most of their day just loitering on the streets.
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The mid-day meal programme was started in the first year of establishing the school as most children were not getting proper meals at home during the day. The school started providing snacks (biscuits and bananas) and lunch (sambhar-rice/ khichdi/daal-rice and vegetables) to students every day to meet their nutrition needs.
