ABITA conducted 4-day Peer Leader Residential Training at Tesco, Bokakhat 

A Correspondent

Numaligarh: The Assam Branch Indian Tea Association (ABITA) in collaboration with UNICEF, had conducted a four-day Peer Leader Residential Training at Tesco, Bokakhat from January 30 to February 2.

A total of 37 girls from Rungagora, Numaligarh, Behora, Borsapori, Diffaloo and Hatikhuli Tea Estates participated in the workshop. The training was conducted by Swarup Bhattacharya Executive Coordinator, NESPYM (North East Society for the Promotion of Youth and Masses – Guwahati), Samim Sultana Islam, Nutrition Counselor and Ume Kulsum Rahman, Child Protection Officer, to educate adolescent girls on nutrition, health, education, child right and child protection.

A partnership between UNICEF and the Assam Branch of the Indian Tea Association (ABITA) has contributed to an improvement in the lives of excluded and marginalized children and women living in 128 of the State’s tea gardens by raising awareness of their survival, well-being and development and leveraging government resources to meet the health, nutrition and water and sanitation needs of these communities.

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