Better health in
schools and Homes,
The purpose of the project is
1. To replace junk food with health
food, nutritional, fruits and vegetables.
2. To eat more food from our own
environments not preserved freeze or fertilizer
3. To help children and families to
understand the benefits of sleeping enough.
4. Less missing time at the school,
Better development of Brain for Better learning for better future.
With a school Teachers were the project of nutritional value in our foods will be going on.
Data from Tanzania Food
and Nutrition Center
1. Children are spending 12 out of 24 hours
in school
2. All programs aiming to promote child
nutrition and health in third world have traditionally been concentrating on fewer
than fives and forgot age group 6-14years.
The future social and economic development of the nation
depends on the nutrition foundation laid during this period and hence school
attendance and performance in class of school children
Nutrition need of
primary school children
1. Protein – Energy giving food
2. Minerals and vitamin A,B,C,Iodine and
Zink
To build resistance against common infections and support
physical growth and development.
Together with student.
Nutrition problem
facing primary children:
1. Because of the relationship between
nutritional status and academic performance.
2. Evidence in Tanzania shows that high
absenteeism, lack of concentration in class and early dropout are results of
short term hunger. About 50%-75% of pupils go to school without breakfast and
they do not get any meal during school hours
This results of low body weight and micronutrients,
Malnutrition. Deficiencies of iron, Iodine and Vitamin A.
Cornwell Tanzania:
Project for better health in schools and families, Health in schools and homes
is
1.
To
help children understand the values in what is available in our surroundings
2.
To
teach economical benefits to avoid parents to give money to the children to buy
food at school which wested to buy candies sweets extra.
3.
To
identify which kind of food is available and how our children can have access
to it.
4.
To
teach them the important of drinking
enough clean water every day, and how they can have access to clean water
5.
How
to prepare lunch packet if necessary
6.
How
to prepare health food at home
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| Playing with student. |
For children to
understand how to take care of they own health.
With teachers and parents together build the better future
for next generation. Our country will be build with us not anybody from outside
the country. And this is starting with
Better health, better
education, better environment will create a better nation.
Cornwell Tanzania Foundation together we will make it.
My health is my own responsibility.
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