'Bhavishya Shakti: Empowering the Future': establishing and evaluating a pilot community mobile teaching kitchen as an innovative model, training marginalised women to become nutrition champions and culinary health educators in Kolkata, India.
Luke BucknerHarrison CarterDominic CrocombeSento KargboMaria KorreSomnath BharShivani BhatDebashis ChakrabortyPauline DouglasMitali GuptaSudeshna Maitra-NagSagarika MuhkerjeeAparjita SahaMinha Rajput-RayIanthi TsimpliSumantra RayPublished in: BMJ nutrition, prevention & health (2021)
The MTK as a public health intervention managed to educate, empower and upskill two groups of lay marginalised women into MTK Champions from the urban slums of Kolkata, India. Improvements in their nutrition KAP demonstrate just some of the effects of this programme. By the provision of healthy meals and nutritional messages, the MTK Champions are key drivers nudging improvements in nutrition and health related awareness with a ripple effect across the communities that they serve. There is potential to upscale and adapt this programme to other settings, or developing into a microenterprise model, that can help future MTK Champions earn a stable income.
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