Improving the health and nutrition of a community often comes down to one thing – communication. Village Square champions those with the most effective megaphones, but also showcases new or quirky trends in food and healthy living.
Health & Wellbeing
Health workers offer rural tele-counseling to contain COVID-19 myths
With lack of access to authentic information, myths and fears proliferate. Health workers counsel communities over phone, addressing their anxieties about the disease and the returned migrants
Closure of seasonal hostels leaves migrants’ children in the lurch
While the lockdown left migrants stranded at destination sites, their children staying in seasonal hostels had to be sheltered with relatives or had to fend for themselves
Farmer producer company bridges consumers and farmers during lockdown
With no transportation, farmers had unsold produce and consumers had no vegetables. With special permission and a mobile app for placing orders, an innovative FPC has fulfilled both needs
How COVID-19 would impact rural India and its economy
With no urban economic activities because of the lockdown, migrants who have returned to native villages and rural workers will feel the pinch in the coming months
Fishermen brace themselves to sail through COVID-19 storm
With the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, fishermen and women whose livelihood depend on a daily catch find it hard to meet household needs
Minimizing the pain for rural India post COVID-19 pandemic
Understanding the sources that cause rural distress during the nationwide lockdown and post pandemic, there is a need for measures to minimize the rural citizens’ distress
Women dairy farmers ensure safe delivery of milk during lockdown
Adopting safety measures during coronavirus scare, women dairy farmers ensure supply of milk to consumers, while protecting the livelihood and economic interests of its member farmers
How to contain spread of pandemic 2019-nCoV? Myths vs Facts!
A compendium of facts about Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) compiled from the statements of World Health Organization busts myths and throws light on the precautions to be taken