
Sahasrahanya 1000 Day Campaign

Sahasrahanya 1000 Day Campaign
- 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
- Seawood
Problem
The continuous care by Tulips means working with women and children from birth to adulthood in order to break the inter-generational cycle of poor health. Nutritional deficiency cuts across all stages along the continuum of care. We ensure they are aware of the health services they need to live a healthy life.
- Prevalence of anaemia in Indian women is highest in the world
- Anaemia and deficiency, diseases among slum dwellers, migrants and marginalized people add to doubling of figures.
What we do
Sahasra in Sanskrit means thousand, Ahanya means days. The window of 1000 days are an opportunity where foundation for optimum health, growth across neuro across life span is established.
- Addressing women’s health between pregnancies up to the child’s second birthday which constitutes (270+365+365 =1000) sets the foundation for the rest of the life that follow.
- Care during pregnancy, infancy, early childhood are potential building blocks for future health
- Identifying, preventing and treating malnutrition
- System strengthening to ensure immunizations and exclusive breastfeeding
- Children of malnourished women are more likely to face cognitive impairments, short stature, lower resistance to infections, and a higher risk of disease and death throughout their lives
Goal
Addressing women’s malnutrition has a range of positive effects because healthy women can fulfill their multiple roles — generating income, ensuring their families’ nutrition, and having healthy children — more effectively and thereby help socioeconomic development of advancing countries.