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Ensuring nutrition to all to build healthy nation underscored
GAIBANDHA, Aug 27, 2019 (BSS) -Speakers at a function underscored the need for ensuring nutrition to all particularly the poor people to build a healthy nation through conducting mass awareness and nutritional activities massively.
“In this context, the officials of government and non-government organizations including the stakeholders of the society will have to come forward with positive attitudes to work coordinately to attain the cherished goals”, they said.
They came up with the comments while addressing a day long experience sharing workshop on Nutrition at the auditorium of SKS Inn, at Radhakrishnapur under Sadar upazila here on Monday.
Sustained Opportunities for Nutrition Governance (SONGO) project being implemented by RDRS Bangladesh and ICCO Cooperation with the financial support of European union arranged the workshop for the multi-sectoral stakeholders in the district.
The officials of GOB and NGO, who works aimed at ensuring nutrition for the people, made their presentations in phases through multimedia projector.
The officials included deputy director of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) Dr. SM Ferdous, district fisheries officer Abdul Dayan Dulu, senior scientific officer (SSO), On Farm Research Division, BARI, Gaibandha Dr. Abdullah Al-Mahmud, SSO of BIRTAN, Pirganj, Rangpur Dr. M. Sadequl Islam, senior technical officer of CARE Bangladesh Ruhul Amin, head of Social Marketing Company, North Division, Quazi M. Jafrullah, and regional coordinator of Friendship Abdus Salam.
In their presentations, the officials also gave their commitment to gear up the activities in the district to improve the nutrition status as the government expects.
Earlier, Mostafa Nurul Islam Reza, operation lead, SONGO project, ICCO Cooperation, made a power point presentation on goals, overview, outcomes, achievement, learning and challenges of the project elaborately.
Reza said the project designed for five years is being implemented at Tarapur, Sreepur, Belka, Chandipur and Haripur unions under Sundarganj upazila, Gidari, Ghagoa and Kamarjani unions under Sadar upazila and Kanchipara, Fulchhari and Udakhali unions under Fulchhari upazila of the district from 2018.
He reiterated saying that project would perform the nutrition related works for the mothers and children like other multi-stakeholders and also sought their whole hearted cooperation for successful implementation of the project.
Over 40 officials from different government and non-government organizations of the district and advisers Toufiqul Islam, Rafiqul Islam, Shamim Alam, Moshiur Rahman and technical officer Mukta Rani of the project including journalists took part in the workshop.
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