https://www.capacityplus.org/taxonomy/term/432/all en https://www.capacityplus.org/frontline-health-workers-key-role-in-improving-nutrition <p><em>This post originally appeared in the Frontline Health Workers Coalition <a href="http://frontlinehealthworkers.org/blog/">Blog</a>.</em><br /><br /><img alt="Sarah Dwyer" src="/files/resources/s-dwyer-profile.jpg" align="left" height="140" hspace="10" width="122" />Sunita Kumari was struggling to get her message across. Working as an auxiliary nurse midwife in Gumla District, Jharkhand, <a href="http://www.capacityplus.org/india">India</a>, she kept trying to mobilize the women of Toto, a village of 941 houses, to participate in Village Health and Nutrition Days. Despite her best efforts, she had little success.<br /><br />Complicating matters, influential village elders failed to see the point: “We never went to the health subcenter and our children were not vaccinated,” they would tell Sunita, “but still they are healthy and fine.”</p> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-authoring-information"><div class="field field-type-text field-field-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Author&#039;s name:&nbsp;</div> Sarah Dwyer and Geeta Sharma </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-date field-field-publication-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Publication Date:&nbsp;</div> <span class="date-display-single">June 2013</span> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <p><a href="https://www.capacityplus.org/frontline-health-workers-key-role-in-improving-nutrition" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://www.capacityplus.org/frontline-health-workers-key-role-in-improving-nutrition#comments Child Health Health Workers India Nutrition Vaccines Village Health and Nutrition Day Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:04:03 +0000 Carol Bales 1038 at https://www.capacityplus.org