Ten schools from FCT‘s six regional councils would participate in the Nestlé for Healthier Kids (N4HK)nutrition quiz competition launched in Abuja.
The Nigerian News Agency (NAN) reports that the quiz competition was inaugurated on Tuesday at the Kuje Regional Council, by Nestlé Nigeria in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Education and Nutrition Society of Nigeria.
Nestlé Public Affairs Specialist Ms Edidiong Peters said N4HK incorporates a school-based nutrition education program, which empowers children to make better nutrition decisions from an early age for a healthier future.
According to her, Nestlé for Healthier Kids (N4HK) is the company’s flagship initiative to help 50 million children around the world live healthier lives by 2030 and beyond.
“The nutrition quiz is a central part of the N4HK program to enhance, recall and retain lessons learned by students in their schools.
“The competition also aims to help children know if they are able to remember and remember what they were taught in school before practice.
“Through activities like the Nutrition Quiz, we are making progress towards our goals of helping children live healthier lives by raising awareness of the benefits of healthy eating and active living.
“Therefore, it is necessary to teach nutrition to children from an early age in school and at home so that they can have a healthier future,” she said.
For her part, Dr Florence Uchendu, President of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria, FCT Chapter, said the rate of child malnutrition was high in the country; hence the need for the program.
Uchendu said Nestlé Nigeria had championed the course teaching children about nutrition and healthy eating for a healthier future.
“Our goal in this competition is to assess what teachers have taught them, whether they have been taught well and whether children are learning too.
“At the end of this competition we will have the best schools to compete in the final and it will show the lessons they are learning in their schools.
“We also want to catch them young because at the end of the day they will go home and tell their parents what we have taught them so that they can eat healthy meals to reduce malnutrition,” she said. declared.
NAN reports that UBE Paseli of Kuje Regional Council and Jiwa Primary School under Abuja Municipal Regional Council (AMAC) won the first round of the quiz competition held in Kuje.
NAN reports that the next round will take place tomorrow at the Abaji Regional Council.
Ofon Fostina, a UBE Paseli student, said she was optimistic her school would win the Nestlé for Healthier Kids quiz in the finals. (NAN)
