Our Approach
We work through partnerships with government and charitable cancer hospitals that treat underprivileged children with the highest need for nutrition. Our programs include placing a nutritionist in the hospital and providing customised diet counseling and free food and nutrition to children.
Our Programs
The Cuddles process to tackle malnutrition
- Identifying a hospital
- Conducting a recce
- Assessing need
- Signing an MoU with the hospital
- Hiring nutritionists with M.Sc in Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics
- Training nutritionists in the specialised field of Pediatric Oncology Nutrition
- Placing Cuddles Nutritionists at the hospital to work under the guidance of a Senior Pediatric Oncologist
- Empowering nutritionists with all the equipment they need such as weighing scales, height charts, and feeding tubes
- Training them to use the Cuddles FoodHeals™ App that helps track a child’s progress through the course of treatment
- Program roll-out with nutritional counselling, diet plans for children
- Provision for hot meals, nutritional supplementation and ration baskets
- Caregiver counselling on home based cooking and kitchen diets
- Conducting caregiver support group meetings at different stages of a child’s treatment cycle
- Overall monitoring + management of nutritional advice by a Senior Nutritionist
- Mapping progress of the children via the FoodHeals™ App and field visits
- Provision of food aid as per requirement
- Placing a social worker for aid disbursement as per requirement
- Quarterly and annual training of nutritionists
- Impact assessment through the FoodHeals™ App
- Regular evaluation by senior nutritionists
- Doctor’s feedback on nutrition’s impact on treatment outcomes
