
School Health Awareness

School Health Awareness
- 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
- Seawood
Problem
Every year the lives of around 50 million children are put at risk because they are dangerously thin from acute under-nutrition, while the long term health of more than 40 million children is threatened because they are overweight. Two billion people suffer from vitamin and mineral deficiencies, but overweight and obesity are key contributors to the non-communicable diseases that account for almost two thirds (63%) of adult deaths globally.
What we do
Malnutrition, defined as ill-health caused by deficiencies of calories, protein, vitamins, and minerals interacting with infections and other poor health and social conditions, saps the strength and well-being of millions of women and adolescent girls around the world
Malnutrition poses a variety of threats to women. It weakens women’s ability to survive childbirth, makes them more susceptible to infections, and leaves them with fewer reserves to recover from illness.
- Capacity building to deliver better public services for child health and nutrition
- Educating adolescents on reproductive health and gender equity
- Creating a cadre of youth to become community change agents
- Urgent action is needed to tackle malnutrition in all forms and to help nutrition unlock the potential of investment in the health of women, children, and adolescents.
Goal
Ignorance about the symptoms of malnutrition, such as the lethargy and depression caused by iron deficiency, may be dismissed as “normal” or unimportant, further exacerbating the problem.
Adequate nutrition, a fundamental cornerstone of any individual’s health, is especially critical for women because inadequate nutrition destroys not only on women’s own health but also on the health of their children.