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Program Description

 

Under the program, adolescent students are given sessions on awareness of iodine deficiencies, sources of Iodine rich food and how salt is a simple solve for Iodine intake along with demonstration of at-home test to check iodine’s presence in salt.

Activities

 
  • Educational sessions including practical demonstrations to differentiate between iodized and non-iodized salt, for adolescent students through engaging skits
 
  • The role of iodised salt as a simple and effective daily source of dietary iodine
 
  • Common source of iodine milk, curd, fish and eggs
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Impact Stories

 

“Under Aashirvaad Smart India Program, our students and teachers are understanding the importance of iodine in our diets and how to include foods rich in iodine as part of healthy diets. We also learnt how to identify iodized salt through simple household methods.”