Our activities include:
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Education on NCD Risk Factors: Focus on unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, tobacco use, and harmful alcohol consumption.
Nutrition Field School: A demonstration plot at the hospital serving as a hands-on learning site.
Climate-Resilient Crop Planting: Growing a variety of crops with short maturity, including green leafy vegetables, orange-fleshed sweet potatoes, butternut, beetroot, moringa, rosella, carrots, capsicum, and pawpaw.
Nutrition Education: Lessons on food groups, maintaining a healthy weight, and preparing nutritious meals.
Food Demonstrations: Members showcase a variety of healthy dishes.
Monthly Meetings: Addressing members' health issues, especially with reduced contact due to longer return dates.
Leaflets/Flyers: Plans to produce key message take-home materials.
Quarterly Food Demos: Hosting "The Healthy Woman in a Healthy Competition," where groups compete in making and showcasing healthy dishes, with winning teams receiving gift hampers.
Activities
Land Preparation
One of the Nurseries
Transplanting
Weeding
What a harvest!
Farm produce
A display of fresh produce from the farm
Cooking Demostration
The women participated in a cooking demonstration and prepared a variety of healthy dishes
The Dishes
Rainbow rice and peanut sauce
Women Proudly don Branded T-shirts with Key Message
You gotta shake a leg-Meeting session laced with fun - physical activity!
Women perform a song and dance with key messages on risk factors during a food demo day
Meeting session
The women with two male champions supporting the cause. In the background is the hospital demo plot with pawpaw and moringa trees
Consultations
The nutritionist consults with Development in Gardening (DIG) Programme Manager
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