What We Did
Our nutrition project aims to increase nutritional wellbeing and food sovereignty. We are planting crops such as plantain, camu camu, and yucca on land that communities have donated to their schools. We are working with the school students and Mothers Clubs on nutrition workshops, in which we teach gardening methods, discuss nutritional needs, and develop delicious and healthy recipes that are based on traditional foods and crops. Women in the communities we work with are given seeds of traditional crops and green vegetables that they have learned about in their nutrition workshops to create their own vegetable gardens. Once a week, participating women meet to cook nutritious dishes for all the children and young people in the community.
