By Jaime Marroquin | Managing Director
It is exciting to be giving the sponsor student moms more nutrition and cooking classes. Every month groups of moms meet at our learning centre to actively participate in nutrition classes and then take the knowledge aquired and create yummy meal items. The mom then goes home with all the food needed to recreate these items for their family.
Malnutrition is a massive problem in the highlands of Guatemala and we are fighting this problem head on by teaching about complete protein and the vitamins and minerals often lacking in their diet. We are not only teaching nutrition but showing the moms how to easily combate this problem with inexpensive solutions.
We are showing the moms how to make wonderful nutritious infant meals with local foods. In July we focused on bananas and explained how they are great baby food but are also really important for your heart, to combat diahrea and your general health. We also gave families banana plants to plant at home.
This program is developing a real sence of community with the moms and making them feel like they can really make a huge change in their families nutritional health.
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