toto grate cococonut to put t in sambar for 1 100,000 childreren is no joke.. we could easily avoid coconut. it doeoesn't make much differen. but it makes a diffefence in the tastste, because samambar means it has to have c coconut. amos: if the dish h is calleled sambar-- madhu: yeah, it has to havee coconunut. amos: there are 4,500 schools eagerly waiting for their meals. and each van visits roughly a dozen of them. considering the state of the roads... [horns honk] and the traffic, it seems miraculous that the lunches reach the schools on time. this road's pretty rough. man: yes, most of the roads are similar. this is a better road which we are traveling. there are a few roads which we take which are very bad roads. we cannot go even two kilometers per hour. that's how slow we go. it's such a horrible road. amos: because the hare krishna movement tops up government funding with donatioions from is members, it can spend more on meals than individual schools. it also adopts regional menus in different parts of india, chchurning outaiaita and meaeat curries in

government has just lauaunched a program providing free h health carere r prpregnant wom a and childreren under five.. [ibraham t thorlie] narrator: so where are the best and worst places to be a mom? for its state of the world's mother's report, "save the children" studied 164 countries and compiled a mothers index. at the top of the index, women have what they need to thrive: excellent medical services, plenty of skilled health workers, and opportunities for education and advancement. but the gap between the top and bottom-ranked countries is stark. at the bottom, one in three children suffers from malnutrition and one in 30 women will die from pregnancy related causes. and how does the united states stack up? number 31. america's maternal mortality is the highest of any industrialized nation. but the study is also clear about solutions that work, and the very best solution for helping moms and children: more health workers on the front lines. the equation is simple. more doctors, more midwives and community health workers means more mothers and children surviving childbirth and the ear

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