Nation-building through Eradicating Malnutrition (NEM) Program

NEM (Nation-building through Eradicating Malnutrition), a holistic progress approach with new ideas of SSS, is originated to procreate of enriched nation through utilizing resources and opportunities properly, where nutrition and development-friendly activities together are focal factors to escalate up productivity in 2012. A combination of services—growing awareness, analyzing and planning of the assets and human-resources, pursuing intervention, technical supports, capital supply, training and workshop, healthcares, education and child development, ecology preservation, infrastructure development, and so on is drawn up to the integrated way to maximize the production and earning under the program, which gradually turns the target families into solvency and uproots the malnutrition in the society.

At present, the organization has been implementing the program through eight branch offices in nine unions of Tangail Sadar upazila, fostering the goal: to build up the nation ensuring eradication of malnutrition and sustainable development. The principal intervention of the program is, Food-nutrition and Healthcare, Financial Services, Technical Support, Agro-fisheries-livestock Development, Social Infrastructure Development, etcetera.

At present the NEM Program covers 9 Unions of Tangail Sadar through 8 Branch Offices of the Organization with 51 thousand Beneficiary Families.

 

Table: Activities of the NEM Program

SL.
Particulars
Achievement in 2022-23
Cumulative on 30 June 2023
Financial Services
1.
Credit Disbursement (Crore Taka)
122.55
813.33
2.
Savings Balance (Crore Taka)
49.85
56.20
Nutrition Growing Activities and IGAs
3.
Nutrition Home (No.)
524
4,388
4.
Commercial Agro-farm (No.)
199
1,129
5.
Innovative Technology Practice (Families)
53
166
6.
Mixed Fruit Garden Establishment (No.)
34
113
7.
Nursery Establishment (No.)
43
58
8.
Hen Rearing (No.)
91
683
9.
Duck Rearing (No.)
27
194
10.
Pigeon Rearing (No.)
77
431
11.
Cow Rearing and Dairy Farming (No.)
116
731
12.
Beef Fattening (No.)
123
1,043
13.
Goat & Lamb Rearing (No.)
116
559
14.
Fodder (Grass) Cultivation (No.)
109
484
15.
Distribution of Vegetable Seedlings (No.)
34,222
1,27,924
16.
Distribution of Fruit Saplings (No.)
5,280
42,568
17.
Vermi-compost Plant Establishment (No.)
148
268
18.
Tricho-compost Plant Establishment (No.)
00
220
19.
Pit-compost Plant Establishment (No.)
71
215
20.
Safe Agro Input Distribution (No.)
2,653
11,737
Nutrition Services
21.
Nutrition Level Test (No.)
2,225
9,012
22.
Organizing Medical Camp (No.)
165
745
23.
Organizing Mobile Clinic (No.)
58
1,293
24.
Organizing Nutrition Camp (No.)
14
195
25.
Livestock Vaccination Camp (No.)
32
258
26.
Awareness Building Meeting (No.)
290
2,340
27.
Farmers Group Meeting (No.)
9
39
28.
IGA Training to the Group Member (Batch No.)
10
207
29.
IGA Training Participant (No.)
250
5,175
30.
Pregnant and Parturient Mothers Care (No.)
497
2,593