How mothers of newborn are learning to tackle malnutrition in Mumbai slum

Using a model based on the World Health Organization's Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) principles, SNEHA tackles gaps in nutrition

“I think I perhaps knew how to hold a baby and play with one before I had my own, but not really anything else. I didn’t know what to expect when I got pregnant. Growing up, talking about diet and the best types of food isn’t really anything I remember,” recounted Sumita Anil Dhumale, 23, a mother of two.

Like many mothers with little education, who marry young and move far from home, Sumita had to fend for herself in an unfamiliar city with her first child, taking advice from her mother-in-law on feeding and hygiene