HEALTHY NUTRITION FIRST THOUSAND DAYS

The Pan y Panela Foundation continues with its comprehensive care program for 100 pregnant and lactating adolescent mothers. During this program we highlight the importance of education as a fundamental pillar to advance the processes, for this reason and complementing the delivery of food packages. We hold monthly training meetings on effective access to health services: within these processes we seek to coordinate with public and private entities that guarantee beneficiaries affiliation to the health system, monitoring of growth and development, consumption of food supplements, vaccination , family planning, training processes and life project: within this component we look for programs that promote access to education for the beneficiaries and their families, employment opportunities, income generation for families, healthy environment: breastfeeding training , healthy lifestyles, good sleeping habits, psychosocial support: identifying cases that may be affecting the comprehensive development of the child, monitoring of nutritional status through height and weight carried out every 3 months to thus have a favorable outcome of the efforts that are being carried out.

The Pan y Panela Foundation is a non-profit entity in charge of carrying out social projects in the vulnerable population of the city of Barranquilla in Colombia. We are currently running a program with attention focused on pregnant mothers and breastfeeding adolescents. This is carried out through educational meetings where the importance of breastfeeding, family planning, good eating habits and additional contributions to their development in work life are discussed, so that they can contribute to society, all accompanied by deliveries of food every 15 days and thus contribute to the healthy eating of children.

At the foundation we also have other programs in which we care for older adults where we seek to keep them active through exercise sessions and children, girls and adolescents, where we carry out recreational and educational recreational activities.

Links:

• Foundation Page