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Agroamerica - Nutritious School Meal Programme
Agroamerica supplemented children’s diets with bananas in the Nutritious School Meal programme to combat malnutrition, and reinforced the health and hygiene education of families.
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“We are very pleased to contribute to the improvement of the living conditions of the communities Cerritos and San Jose Mogollon. This programme supports AgroAmerica's philosophy of promoting the development of the communities where we operate as well as or our CSR program that is aligned with the MDGs. ”
- Fernando Bolaños, Agroamerica CEO
Nutritious School Meal is a food security and nutritional programme implemented by Agroamerica, which supplements the diet of over 900 school children in San José Mongollón, Guatemala, with bananas.
It also provides preventive health training and home visits for the pupils’ mothers. This aims to help towards combating malnutrition in the area, as well as touching on preventive health, maternal health, children rights and gender equality.
Agroamerica sought the involvement of teachers and the local community to help ingrain food security and nutrition learning. This involved preventive health training sessions for children, parents and teachers, as well as home visits to evaluate the impact of the programme.
“We are very pleased to contribute to the improvement of the living conditions of the communities Cerritos and San Jose Mogollon. This programme supports AgroAmerica's philosophy of promoting the development of the communities where we operate as well as or our CSR program that is aligned with the MDGs.”
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