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Health and Nutrition
Health and Nutrition
health-and-nutrition
LET US BUILD A NATION OF HEALTHY CHILDREN , TOGETHER
Join our Mission to Secure Health and Nutrition for every child in India, ensuring a Brighter Future for all!
Bal Raksha Bharat (globally known as Save the Children) is committed to supporting government programmes and schemes to ensure the last mile delivery of our work for children. We have strategic engagement with the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, NITI Aayog, State Governments, and Research and Academic Institutions such as Indian Council for Medical Research – National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR NIN),Indian Council of Medical Research and International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) to strengthen child health and nutrition and enhance health and nutrition programmes in hard-to-reach areas.
Our Thematic Goal
No child should die from preventable causes before their fifth birthday. Every child, adolescent, and mother must have equitable access to quality, gender-sensitive health, nutrition, and WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) services.
Key Work Areas
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Maternal, New-born, Child, and Adolescent Health (MNCAH)
Strengthening the continuum of care from pregnancy to adolescence.
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Nutrition
Prevention and management of malnutrition through multi-sectoral interventions, local nutritious diet promotion, and system strengthening.
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WASH
Improving sanitation and hygiene access with climate-resilient, user-friendly infrastructure and behaviour change initiatives.
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Disease Prevention & Management
Combatting pneumonia, diarrhoea, TB, and other childhood illnesses.
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Health Systems Strengthening
Building capacity of frontline workers (ASHA, ANM), digital innovations, and policy advocacy for sustainable impact.
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Emergency & Pandemic Response
Delivering health and nutrition interventions during natural disasters and health crises.
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Community Engagement & Behaviour Change
Mobilising mothers’ groups, adolescents, and influencers to sustain positive practices.
Our Approach towards making a difference
At Bal Raksha Bharat, we believe that optimal use of Health, Nutrition, and WASH services is essential for the well-being of children, adolescents, pregnant women, and lactating mothers. Our ambition for 2030 is simple yet powerful: every child survives, learns, and is protected. To achieve this, we bring multi-sectoral interventions to the most disadvantaged families and communities across India.
We work in close partnership with the:
Ministry of Women & Child Development
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
NITI Aayog
State Governments
Leading research institutions such as ICMR-NIN
ensuring that health and nutrition programmes reach hard-to-reach areas.
How We Create Impact
We address the root causes of poor health and undernutrition by strengthening:
Access to clean water and sanitation
Adoption of safe hygiene practices
Promotion of adequate dietary intake
Prevention and management of childhood infections
As a multi-thematic organisation, we adopt integrated, evidence-based approaches that connect health and nutrition with education, WASH, social protection, and livelihoods. Our efforts also support flagship government programmes such as Anemia Mukt Bharat, Poshan Abhiyaan, Mission Saksham Anganwadi,SAANs Campaign, National Program on climate change human health and the Eat Right Campaign, expanding their reach and impact with a strong focus on child nutrition.
How BRB translates it’s mission into Actions:
Life-Cycle Interventions: Supporting children and mothers from the first 1,000 days to adolescence to ensure survival, growth, and holistic development.
Tackling Undernutrition: Promoting locally available, climate-smart diets and diverse food options for children, adolescents, and mothers.
Maternal & Child Health Innovations: Leveraging telemedicine, Health ATMs, drones, and digital health tools to expand equitable access.
WASH & Climate Resilience: Building climate-ready health and nutrition infrastructure, introducing water-saving practices, and promoting adaptive hygiene solutions.
Improving Nutritional Security: Strengthening infant and young child feeding practices and reinforcing ICDS services.
Supporting Children with TB: Providing nutritional care to aid recovery and creating a supportive ecosystem for paediatric TB management.
Comprehensive Primary Healthcare: Delivering inclusive services that address the needs of all, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status.
Strengthening outreach health services through Mobile health Units.
Through the support of our donors, we can plan and implement robust public health projects and reach more children in need.
Salient aspects of our work in the area of Child Health and Nutrition
We have provided technical assistance for the SAANS campaign (Social Awareness and Action to Neutralize Pneumonia Successfully) since 2019. We have supported the social media campaign for ‘SAANS’ and successfully achieved 52.1 million digital footprints around messaging and awareness of childhood pneumonia.
Between 2019 and 2021, BRB implemented programs to prevent and manage childhood pneumonia across two states (UP and Rajasthan), which directly benefited 1,12,908 children (0-5 years of age) on Protect, Prevent and Treat interventions and successfully reduced ARI Prevalence by 63% in the intervention areas.