"Eating wholegrain maize makes our bodies strong and healthy," said Julienne, a 15-year-old student at Kibirizi primary school in the Nyamagabe district in the south of the country.Aside from the success of the project itself, what makes it especially worthy of attention is the potential for it to be a model to replicate elsewhere.
But it is potentially a promising way to increase the micronutrient content while maintaining the health benefits of wholegrains, which provide more protein, fibre and micronutrients than refined foods. The WFP Country Office has reported a big shift in student preferences thanks to the programme, with 97% saying they preferred the wholegrain versions to the refined equivalent because they liked the rich taste."The more nutritious foods children eat, the more active they are, and they perform better in school too," said Faustin, Julienne's father.
"Before the pilot , fortified maize meal, purchased from a local supplier, was already a main component of school lunches along with fortified rice, fresh vegetables from school gardens, beans, fortified oil and iodized salt," said WFP's Tiina Honkanen. The project also helps the local economy. WFP supports smallholder farmers to improve their quality and yields and connects them to viable markets to sell their supply. Such is the case for a number of WFP-supported maize farmers, who sell their maize to the WFP supplier miller who produces the fortified wholegrain maize meal.There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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