SEEDS with support from DSM India under its CSR project, worked extensively on POSHAN Programme in order to effectively address the issues of malnutrition at community level. The programme was carried out in the six districts of Maharashtra state viz. Ahmednagar, Aurangabad, Beed, Pune, Palghar and Thane.

The major objective of this programme was to directly addressing malnutrition among the adolescent, pregnant and lactating mothers in the local community.

After getting the mandate for undertaking POSHAN Programme, SEEDS team along with the DSM India and Women & Child Development Department, Government of Maharashtra, organized series of Training Programme in intervention districts and distributed Micro SD Cards and tabs.

An especially designed Poshan microSD card (“Poshan Card”) was provided to each AWS and AWW. The Poshan Card provides a ready-access (offline) to the Poshan videos selected for addressing malnutrition in adolescent, pregnant and lactating women in the intervention districts of Maharashtra.