Around 50 young people who are active on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Google Plus came together as part of a social media meet organised by Ansh Happiness Society in partnership with UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh here on Friday.
Michael Juma, Chief, UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh re-emphasized on the importance of first thousand days in the life of the child in ensuring their survival, growth and neuro-development, and how young social media champions can meaningfully contribute in disseminating key nutrition messages on social media to spur sustained awareness amongst young people.
Dr P ShashiKala, Head of the Department of New media of Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism spoke on the need to of young people to contribute to issues and use power of social media to contribute for children.
Dr Sameer Pawar, Nutrition Specialist, Pushpa Awasthy, Nutrition Officer, UNICEF MP, spoke to young people on what is Poshan Abhiyan, importance of nutrition in life of the child and the challenges for children and key messages of Poshan Abhiyan and nutrition which they can disseminate using social media platforms.
Anil Gulati, Communication Specialist, UNICEF, MP shared the key hashtags which should be used and tools which can be used for sharing tweets, posts on various social media platforms.
Participants later on worked on game called social media battle, in which they were divided in teams and worked out creative ways to express the content.
They worked out illustrations, poems, videos, posters, photographs to express the key message. The game was lead by Mohsin Khan, Cofounder of Ansh.
At the end of the event all participants took oath to support Poshan Abhiyan and help to spread reach out of messages to benefit children and women of India