BUILDING A CHILD RIGHTS-BASED MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY FOR CHILDREN OF SEASONAL MIGRANT FAMILIES

AGENCY          :     Ministry of Economic Cooperation (BMZ), Federal Republic of Germany, through terre des hommes
START DATE   :     01-01-2021
END DATE       :     31-12-2025

Mathura, Uttar Pradesh

With the support of BMZ and terre des hommes, CEC is engaged in a 5 year project of improving the quality and diversity of food consumption for women and children in the brick kilns of Uttar Pradesh. The target of the project is to ensure four to five different foods in the daily diet of 40 percent of the worker families by the end of the 2nd year and 90 percent of the families by the end of the 4th year.  By the end of the project, the nutritional situation of 5,250 children of migrant worker families  will be improved significantly, and migrant workers will be standing up for their rights together with civil society actors at regional and national level.