Nestle Nido takes nutritional campaign to mothers, schoolchildren
In order to help reduce the risk of malnutrition through micronutrient-fortification, Nestle Nido organised a nutrition campaign at Osu, Accra, last Saturday.
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The campaign, which involved mothers, teachers and schoolchildren, was aimed at promoting good nutrition and healthy lifestyle that contribute to the development of families, especially children.
The two-hour campaign was interspersed with aerobics and healthy life education tit-bits dramatised by a team from the School of Performing Arts of the University of Ghana.
There was also a segment for nutritional quizzes, games and lucky spins, which were contested by some mothers and their children.
At the peak of the event held at the Ako Adjei Park a mother and petty trader, Bernice Edifor Addo, won a GH¢500 scholarship for her son, Leon Addo, a Primary Two pupil of the Kaajaano Presby School, after she beat five others in a contest of “Who knows her healthy meals best.”
In addition to her prize, she took home exercise books and assorted Nestle products.
All the contestants in the various games and quizzes received various prizes, with all participants of the event going home with Nestle products and exercise books.
A message read by the Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Manager of Nestlé-Ghana, Mr Aaron Fenu, on behalf of the Managing Director, Mrs Freda Duplan, said “the Nestle Nido Nutrition Education Campaign affords mothers and caregivers nutrition education for the optimal growth of their children and is being run in selected schools nationwide in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service.”
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He stressed the important role education plays in promoting good nutrition and healthy lifestyle that contribute to the development of families.
According to Mr Fenu, since the inception of the programme in 2015, Nestle Ghana has supported over 11,000 mothers and, in a collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES), embarked on numerous campaigns across the Volta, Central, Northern, Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions.
A nutritionist, Madam Priscilla Copson, who interacted with parents, counselled participants on the need for balanced diets, the importance of breakfast and the crucial health benefits of the right amounts of micronutrients such as iron, calcium and vitamins in the meals of growing children and adults.
She said Vitamin C and Iron, for example, worked together to promote alertness.
The lack of these micronutrients in the diets of children may result in kwashiorkor and set on other health challenges such as weak immune systems and slow-healing wounds and cuts.