UNICEF here on Tuesday organised a Corporate4Children meet to engage corporates on the theme of mobilsing action and resources for children in Madhya Pradesh. 50 delegates from more than 40 corporates including public sector organisations, banks, companies, and institutions were part of the meet organised by UNICEF.
Uday Borwanker, Divisional Railway Manager, West Central Railways, Shammimudin Managing Director MP State Cooperative Diary Federation, Mahesh Shukla of BSNL, Rajeev Agarwal of Mandideep Industrial Association, Abhsihek Mohan Gupta, Pro Chancellor Jagran Lake City University were present.
Michael Juma, Chief, UNICEF, spoke about the issue of child marriage, nutrition, anemia and seeking support of corporates in ending child marriage, supporting poshan abhiyan, anemia mukt bharat, water and sanitation sectors and sports for development.
He said that Madhya Pradesh Government is taking steps for children. However, we need support from corporates to come forward and support State initiatives for children.
Anil Gulati, Communication Specialist, UNICEF, made a presentation on the efforts and challenges for children in Madhya Pradesh and made an appeal to corporate to keep children first, respect for child rights and shared ideas wherein corporate can pitches for children.
He also shared presentation an initiative impact4nutrition which is an effort to mobilise private sector engagement on nutrition and poshan abhiyan Jan andolan.
Around 25 corporate members present extended interest and signed pledge to support impact for nutrition.
Uday Borwanker, Divisional Railway Manager made a presentation on the efforts being done by West Central Railways for children and he said they will be more then happy to support UNICEF's effort for children including dissemination of key messages. Mahesh Shukla of BSNL spoke on the support being extended by BSNL for child helpline and said that they will look into using messages of child rights on its mobile dialer tone. Shammimuddin, Managing Director of MP State Cooperative Diary Federation spoke on their work and that they will look into integrating message of breastfeeding on milk packets. Pallavi Rao Chaturvedi of AISSECT and Balaji Rao, Deputy General Manager Central Bank of India spoke at the meeting.
Rajeev Agarwal of Mandideep Industrial Association, spoke on the efforts being done by the association for supporting children.
Similarly, Jagran Lake City University Pro Chancellor Abhishek Mohan Gupta spoke on the efforts being done by University free of cost for educating girls and children.