CASE STUDY 6 : THE OTHER WAY

Najima is an illiterate women living in a remote village in Murshidabad. Her husband is a daily labour and most of the year he works  in cold storage in other town. Although husband earns good but spent a large cgunk on liquor and gambling.  Her elder daughter gets sick and doctor said that she is underweight. She once attend the meeting on nutrition and role of ICDS organized by SUWS. On that day she knew that why one should send their children to ICDS . Earlier she heard of this school only as a khichuri school. Soon she meets with the ICDS worker and enrooles her daughter’s name. From that onwards both her daughter avail ICDS services. Within four moinths her eldederdaughter’s problem gets rid off and the weight improves. She now act a volunteer of SUWS for mobiling the community to send their children in ICDS