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WIN Foundation Felicitated by AMC - Health Department

WIN Foundation is committed to work for mother and child nutrition, and support multi-stakeholder efforts in this.
AMC-Amdavad Municipal Corporation – Health Department organised an event on 4th August’22 to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week at Ahmedabad Management Association. More than 500 health workers participated in the celebration followed by a seminar by Dr.Sagar Panchal on techniques of breast feeding. The force of trained health workers are now playing an active role as ambassadors (master trainers) for conducting training on ā€œFirst 1000 days ā€“ Maternal & Child Nutritionā€ (Training of Trainers) for the field health workers and counseling mothers.
AMC, Health department felicitated health workers from each Zone of Ahmedabad for their excellent performance in training the lactating mothers on breast feeding techniques and bringing in the change in behaviour in the community
On this special occasion AMC, Health department and Ahmedabad Mayor Shri Kiritbhai Parmar, recognised and felicitated WIN Foundation for its support and contribution in the AMC Mother and Child Nutrition efforts.
For more details on WIN foundation efforts in nutrition, visit: https://www.winfoundations.org/maternal-and-child-health/

WZC 2022 Social Entrepreneur Award given to Ron, President, WIN Foundation

Mr. Ruyintan (Ron) Mehta, President of WIN Foundation , was given the Social Entrepreneur Award, for promoting social entrepreneurship to advance societies and address social problems as part of the “World Zarathushti Community Award” – at the 12 World Zoroastrian Congress 2022 NYC, held at New York over 1-4 July 2022.
For the past decade, Ron has made outstanding contributions to social impact activities including in Education, Water and Health. and devoted himself fulltime to become an active Social Entrepreneur.
For the past decade, Ron has made outstanding contributions to social impact activities including in Education, Water and Health. and devoted himself fulltime to become an active Social Entrepreneur.

WIN Support to COVID 19 ā€“ Relief Efforts

Saath Ration Kit Support for Communities of Ahmedabad, Gujarat

WIN made a contribution toĀ  Saath Charitable TrustĀ  for Support to vulnerable households during Covid Lockdown. Saath In order to help vulnerable households toĀ  overcome the challenge of procuring monthly Ration, SAATH is distributing Ration Kits (oil, grains, pulses, sugar, salt and basic supplies) to families residing in the slum areas. To meet these immediate need of ration and basic supplies, each Ration Kit costs Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 1,200/-.

Support for Vulnerable Needy families in Kutch during Covid-19

WIN made a contribution to Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS), Bhuj, Kutch, Gujarat (Associated with Arid Communities and Technologies)Ā  for Support to vulnerable needy households during Covid Lockdown. COVID 19 pandemic and the lockdown in response is severely impacting the daily wage earner. Their livelihood is gone, leaving them and their dependent women, elders and children along with themselves highly vulnerable. KMVS is supporting families with a support of Rs. 3000/- per family for basic food ration.

Nutrition content of ration kits

Our collaboration building outreach efforts played a role in seeking and getting timely advice from nutrition experts for our NGO partners, on need to add locally available grocery items to kits to balance the nutrition, primarily to add proteins and micronutrients, to a carbohydrate heavy content of the kit.Ā  We spread this communication among our partners and the other community organizations in touch with us.Ā  Many of them adopted relevant suggestions. This will critically help the young mothers and children in the families getting this support to fight against malnutrition.

Amneal Pharmaceuticals donate 3.4 million hydroxychloroquine tablets in US to fight Covid-19.

Amneal Pharmaceuticals, the company founded by Mr. Chirag Patel and Chintu Patel, has donated 3.4 million hydroxychloroquine tablets to various US state government agencies and hospitals in effort to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Amneal is a major producer of hydroxychloroquine. Mr. Chirag Patel is the Founder and Chairman of WIN Foundation.

ā€œAll of us at Amneal Pharmaceuticals are committed to assisting our communities in the global fight against COVID-19,ā€ said Chirag Patel, Co-CEO of Amneal Pharmaceuticals.

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Parisodhana among top 10-12 startups selected for session "Innovations contributing to National Missions: Water | Swach Bharat |Nutrition | Ayushman Bharat" at Global Bio India 2019

Parisodhana was one among theĀ topĀ 10-12 startups from Indian ecosystem shortlisted for the session `Innovations contributing to National Missions: Water | Swach Bharat |Nutrition | Ayushman Bharatā€ at Global Bio India 2019 Ā organised by the Department of Biotechniology, Government of India,Ā on 22nd November, 2019.

This event was attended by many decision makers in Health and other ministries from central and state governments of India and various dignitaries from across the world.

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