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Before the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown was announced on March 24, at least 96 children from a slum in Trombay, Mumbai, would visit Sangeeta Kamble’s anganwadi centre every day.
Even though the centre is run from the cramped home of a slum resident, Kamble tried her best to juggle all the duties of an anganwadi worker: providing hot meals and dry rations to children below six, measuring their height and weight regularly, scheduling mandatory vaccinations for them and serving as their pre-school teacher.
Since the lockdown began, however, the anganwadi has been shut and Kamble and her assistant have been “working from home”. For them, this has involved making regular calls to the children’s parents, watching half their slum empty out as migrant families returned to their villages, and trying in vain to arrange for nutritious rations for those who remained. Even though manufacturers of these nutritious “take-home rations” for children were supposed to continue their supply to anganwadis, Kamble claims all the anganwadis in her area did not receive any.
Kamble still calls as many parents as she can, asking after the health of the children and reminding them to get them vaccinated at rural health centres whenever they get the chance. But with no clarity on when her anganwadi will re-open, she has been growing anxious.
“The children have not received their take-home rations for three months. They have missed out on their vaccines,” said Kamble. “We have worked so hard to fight malnutrition in our slum, and now it is all going in reverse.”
Kamble’s fears echo those of thousands of anganwadi workers across Mumbai, the biggest Covid-19 hotspot in the country.
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Established under the central government’s Integrated Child Development Services scheme, rural and urban anganwadis have been at the heart of India’s efforts to tackle child malnutrition for the past 45 years. Anganwadi services have been plagued by a range of problems – inadequate funding, corruption in the provision of rations, devaluing of women’s labour – but they have still carried on.
But with the pandemic, for the first time, anganwadis across India have almost completely shut down. In cities like Mumbai and Delhi, they may not re-open for several more months. This could leave lakhs of children from low-income communities more prone to malnutrition and more vulnerable to communicable diseases.
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Vaccination dilemma
One of the key roles of an anganwadi worker is to record every pregnancy and birth in her area, draw up immunisation schedules for each child and ensure that they are vaccinated on time. The Covid-19 lockdown disrupted these schedules for over three months in Mumbai, but immunisation efforts restarted in several small health clinics in mid-June.
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