Odisha launches ‘Ama Kunipila” scheme
The Women and Child Development Department of Odisha government today launched the ‘Ama Kunipila” scheme on the occasion of the Children’s Day following the direction of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Bhubaneswar: The Women and Child Development Department of Odisha government today launched the ‘Ama Kunipila” scheme on the occasion of the Children’s Day following the direction of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
While launching the ‘Ama Kunipila” scheme, the department in press release said, “It is a campaign to institutionalise home-based care and stimulation of children less than three years of age through concrete intervention on home-based parent-led early stimulation programme for their brain development through men-streaming caregivers capacity building, low-cost toy-making by parents.”
“The major components of this programme are sensitising the parents and caregivers on the importance of early years, involvement of father and male caregivers through men-streaming, engaging young children with low-cost contextual and child-friendly toys by the parents and caregivers, facilitating love, talk, touch and play through toys, stories, and interactive talk and activity by the Anganwadi workers and campaign grounding and effective implementation facilitate through appropriate parent and caregiver-friendly social behaviour communication programme (SBCC),” it added.
The press release further said, “The ‘Ama Kunipila’ activity is envisaged to promote parent-led home-based joyful child-friendly learning by creating an early stimulating environment. Various IEC materials including Mo Bikash Patra, Kuni CalendarAama Kunipila Flip Book, Sukhada Lalana Palana handbook, and Aama Kunipila toy kit have been developed to support and strengthen the programme.”
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