Awareness: ‘Malnutrition acute in workers’ children’

Nestlé to teach PWWB children about nutrition

LAHORE: “Pakistan faces an acute malnutrition problem and nowhere is it more evident than among the workers’ children,” Labour and Human Resource Minister Raja Ashfaq Sarwar has said.

The minister and Nestlé Pakistan managing director Bruno Olierhoek inaugurated a Nestlé Healthy Kids Room at the Punjab Workers Welfare Board (PWWB) Higher Secondary School in Nishtar Town.

“The Nestlé Healthy Kids programme addresses the issue by creating awareness among parents, teachers and students regarding healthy eating in children from within the diets they are already consuming. I take this opportunity to extend my fullest cooperation to Nestlé Pakistan in their mission,” Sarwar said.

Bruno Olierhoek said, “Nestlé is happy to promote healthy eating habits among Pakistani children. The Nestlé Healthy Kids programme is based on multi-partnership approaches and the PWWB Higher Secondary Schools are certainly helping us take the programme to more kids in the region.”

Under the programme, launched in Pakistan in 2010, nutritional awareness has been imparted to nearly 85,000 children, six to 16 years of age, in rural, sub–urban and urban areas of the country.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 18^th, 2016.