Anganwadi workers training centre was established by MeeraSansthan in 1983 on the request of the then collector Mr. CS Srivastava.
The objective was to capacity build and develop skills of anganwadi workers to be deployed across Jodhpur district.
Anganwadi means a “courtyard shelter” in Hindi, as such it functions as a rural mother and childcarecentre providing vital primary healthcare services, nutritional supplements and pre-school activities. Hence the role of an anganwadi worker is extremely significant and influential, they are responsible to provide antenatal and postnatal care to pregnant women, newborns and nursing mothers. Additionally, these workers are also responsible to provide nutritional supplements to children below six years of age and nursing mothers, ensuring that the poor and the underprivileged do not fall victim to malnourishment and hunger.
Most importantly, the anganwadi workers are tasked with providing formative education to children between the ages of 2 to 6. This is an extremely crucial period in a child’s mental, physical and emotional development. Children’s brain quadruples in size during this age, and is extremely absorptive of its environment. Children develop lingual, social and rational skills during this age by imitation and adoption. MeeraSansthan has been at the forefront of innovating and incorporating appropriate information and methodologies in the curricula ofanganwadi workers. Meera Sansthan is dedicated in empowering these workers with the right set of skills, temperament and values, sothat the children can be inspired to follow in their footsteps.
As an organisational strategy MeeraSansthan has focuses its energy and resources on imparting the values, principles (based on Ghandian ideology of Ahimsa and Self-reliance) and the required skills (in accord to the WHO standard, as prescribed in the SDGs) onto the anganwadi workers in the hope that it will trickle down to the future generations they are tasked to mould and build.
The responsibilities of an Anganwadi worker as described by Ministry of Women and Child Development:
The guidelines include showing community support and active participation in executing this programme, to conduct regular quick surveys of all families, organize pre-school activities, provide health and nutrition education to families especially pregnant women on how to breastfeed, etc., motivating families to adopt family planning, educating parents about child growth and development, assist in the implementation and execution of Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY) to educate teenage girls and parents by organizing social awareness programmes etc., identify disabilities in children. Anganwadi workers are also primary executing personal for programs aimed at reducing or eliminating Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), Mother Mortality Rate (MMR), Malnutrition, and to eradicate Female Feticide practices.
The Anganwadi workers training programme is supported by Integrated Child Development Services of the MoWCD as part of GoI’s effort to conform to the following united nation’s sustainable development goals
Anganwadi workers training centre was established by MeeraSansthan in 1983 on the request of the then collector Mr. CS Srivastava. The objective was to capacity build and develop skills of anganwadi workers to be deployed across Jodhpur district.
Anganwadi means a “courtyard shelter” in Hindi, as such it functions as a rural mother and childcarecentre providing vital primary healthcare services, nutritional supplements and pre-school activities. Hence the role of an anganwadi worker is extremely significant and influential, they are responsible to provide antenatal and postnatal care to pregnant women, newborns and nursing mothers. Additionally, these workers are also responsible to provide nutritional supplements to children below six years of age and nursing mothers, ensuring that the poor and the underprivileged do not fall victim to malnourishment and hunger.
