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Nutrition Fair and Cooking Competition were held on the ground of Dwin-Mohammad Government Primary School under Gidari union of Sadar upazila in Gaibandha district on Tuesday.
With the financial support of the European Union Sustained Opportunity for Nutrition Governance (SONGO) project, which is, being implemented in Gaibandha and Kurigram districts by RDRS Bangladesh and Cordaid Netherlands organised the fair and competition.
The objective of the fair and the competition was to create awareness among the people about nutrition.
To make the people accustomed to feeding nutritional foods which are available in society is another objective of the fair.
A concluding ceremony was also held on the school ground in the afternoon with local union parishad chairman Hrun-or Rashid Edu Miah in the chair.
Upazila health and family planning officer Dr Md Nazmus Shakib addressed the ceremony as the chief guest and upazila family planning officer Mahbuba Khatun and officer in charge of Sadar thana Masudur Rahman spoke at the event as special guests.
Medical officer Dr Md Manzurul Hasan Shourav, head teacher of the school Ayena Shahid, nutrition governance adviser of the project Maniruruzzaman Mukul, local consultant of the project Afroja Bulbul, upazila coordinator Mohona Akhter, technical officer Mukta Rani Roy and procurement officer Rubel Miah addressed the ceremony, among others.
The speakers in their speeches described the health benefits and qualities of nutrition foods elaborately and urged the local people to consume the nutrition foods, which grow at the homesteads and in their surroundings easily to meet the demand for nutrition in the human body.
Later, the guests formally distributed the crests as gifts to the 3 best stall owners out of 18.
Earlier, a similar fair and coking competition was also held at Sundarganj and Fulchhari upazila headquarters of the district a few days back at the initiative of the project, said Mostafa Nurul Islam Reza, lead operations of the project.
