On Monday, children returned to Mangaluru’s Anganwadi centers after a one-and-a-half-year break. To welcome the kids, all 2,108 centers were sanitized. The district’s workers and assistants have also been vaccinated. Children were instructed to sit at a one-meter distance from one another. The Anganwadi centers were open until 12 p.m., and the children were only provided packed meals that they were not allowed to eat on the premises. As per the officer, they would assess the situation for 15 days before deciding to serve or not serve nutritional meals.
The district’s Anganwadi centers serve 1.80 lakh people, and there are 4,200 Anganwadi employees and helpers. A few Anganwadi centers had prepared a lavish greeting for the kids, showering them with flower petals. On the first day, however, attendance at a few Anganwadi centers was low. Only three children made it to the Gandhinagar Government School’s Anganwadi center. As per Aruna, an Anganwadi worker at Beeriga, Puttur, there was 100% attendance. They have requested all 12 five-year-old children to attend the Anganwadi center every day because there are 30 kids registered at the center. On alternating days, the younger children will be required to attend the center.
Mangalore North MLA greeted the kids at an Anganwadi center in Krishnanagara, Marakada Ward, and afterward engaged with them. He even invited the kids to come to the Anganwadi center every day and to tell him about their days at home. Kindergartens were even reopened for the kids. The school was packed with LKG and UKG students who were accompanied by their parents. When the Anganwadi centers were shuttered because of the COVID-19 epidemic, the kids studied online to keep the learning process moving forward.
Anganwadi employees set up a WhatsApp group and registered moms of children who had been accepted to each Anganwadi jurisdiction. Every week, Anganwadi personnel will post a new topic to the group. The mothers of the children were instructed how to teach their children. Makkala Jagruthi Samsthe had established the notion of children being taught at home by their mothers. Moreover, to guarantee that children do not go hungry, Anganwadi volunteers supplied meal items to each kid throughout the lockdown time to prevent malnutrition.
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