“We used to worry whether the stove would light today. Now children go to school with full stomachs.”
— Ramkot Village, Sitapur, UP
For daily-wage labour families in Ramkot block, arranging two meals a day was difficult, especially during the rainy months when work was scarce.
In 2022, a community kitchen was started with 6 women from the village. Today, 400 people eat hot food here daily, and those same 6 women run the operation.
According to block ANM data, malnutrition among children under 5 has dropped from 31% to 18% in the last 2 years.