On the 16th of October, we celebrated World Food Day. We prepared the students from across our centres with a delicious and healthy meal. We partnered with Uttarakhand Police Wives Welfare Association, the Kotdwara District Food Officer and Additional Superintendent of Police. World Food Day aims to create an awareness of global hunger and strives to eradicate hunger across the world. This year’s World Food Day theme was “Safe food now for a healthy tomorrow”.
The United Nations estimates that there are 195 million undernourished people in India, meaning that India shares a quarter of the worlds global hunger burden.
Our goal as we celebrated World Food Day was to educate our students on the importance of eating nutritional healthy meals, hunger and malnutrition, as well as sustainable food production. Our fabulous staff members worked diligently to prepare meals that were rich in iron, calcium, vitamins and protein. Each dish had its own nutritional value, and there was much to be learnt;
- Salad: Boosting the immune system, adding fibre to the body and good for eyesight and digestion.
- Palak ‘Spinach’ Paneer ‘Indian Cottage Cheese’, a North Indian curry dish, with fresh spinach, onions, spices, paneer and herbs. This dish is known in India as a good source of protein.
- Lauki kofta ‘bottle gourd’: Helps digestion and weight loss, benefiting the heart and reduces stress.
- Raee ‘Green vegetable’: Contains vitamins, minerals, and fibre.
- Veg Pulao ‘rice and vegetables’: Contains carbohydrates, fibre and iron.
- Chapati ‘tortillas’: Contains fibre.
- Burrito with kidney beans: Provides rich proteins.
It was evident from the children’s faces that they were satisfied and happy with their meals. When you can enjoy three meals each day you are blessed. World Food Day is an opportunity to learn to respect food, as food is an essential requirement for the sustenance of life and we hope we will not forget to celebrate this blessing. We made a promise to ourselves that we will not waste food this is a contribution, a small action that will make a big difference to this world.
Food, family, friendship
We had a fun day learning so many new things as well as celebrating the blessings of food, friendship and coming together around the shared family table. We thank God for Project help India.
https://in.one.un.org/un-priority-areas-in-india/nutrition-and-food-security/
