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Ecuador

Nutrition Education

1. Training Teachers

Nutrir trains teachers to focus on various aspects contained in topics like nutritional education, hygiene and physical activity. These important social actors multiply the knowledge in the classroom including them in the school curricular programme.

                  

 

2. Training Children

The target is the children from fourth to seventh grade of Schools in Quito, Guayaquil and Cayambe. Childhood is a very important period to develop healthy eating habits and a healthy lifestyle that will prevent health eating problems.

                 

 

3. The Nutrir Fair

The Nutrir Fair is an artistic-playful activity that reinforces the information of the school supplies given by the program. It consists on a play rich in practical advisements about nutritional education.

                   

 

4. Training Workshops

The workshops are directed to mothers, women's associations, foundations, governmental and nongovernmental institutions, neighbourhood organizations and universities.

Three training workshops are carried out :
- Nutritional Education and Food Safety
- Organic Homemade Orchards
- Preparation of nutritious recipes

                    

 

5. Interventión Places

Urban public schools located in Quito, Guayaquil and Cayambe. This selection criteria is made following the location of Nestlé offices and factories. Institutions that work for children nutritional health causes.

 

6. Accion Solidaria Foundation

Nutrir has extended its educational program at the Solidarity Centre Santiago Apostol of the "Accion Solidaria" Foundation. The workshops taught on "Nutritional Education and Food Safety" and "Preparation of nutritious recipes", have impacted positively on the right way to feed the children of the foundation. Nutrir supports the centre with the daily provision for food, for the maintenance of the school and for the payment of teachers and tutors.