Health & Sanitation

Year 03 | Semester 06 | 2020

The context of the site includes Colleges, Food stalls, Open grounds and the Nehru Nagar Slum area. Slum dwellers experience manifold deprivations; not only houses unfit for habitation but also lack of adequate food, education, health and basic services. These dire conditions give rise to several issues including malnutrition. Their poverty results in impaired development of the education and health care systems which further gives rise to socio economic and political inequity. This indirectly worsens the food security of reducing the intake, thus causing malnutrition. Affecting mostly children under the age of 5, signs are visible in the form of growth faltering, weight loss and overall impaired development.

Compromised immunity, infection and diseases cause energy loss and reduced productivity leading them right back on the track of poverty, thereby trapping them in this vicious cycle.
Solutions to this epidemic include nutritional improvement, supplementation of essential vitamins, easy access to fresh and uncontaminated fruits and vegetables from safe sources, subsidized prices of foods, etc. Along with eating right, a certain amount of physical activity is also required to be able to live a healthy life. This project aims to address the issues of Starvation, Malnutrition, Food Contamination and Food Insecurity, through Urban Micro Farming, Nutritional Rehabilitation and providing sound and credible knowledge to those in need.