Global Collaboration Project

In collaboration with the “farm to school” organic school lunch provider Bento Moo, the Dounia Project team conducted a parent workshop on developing healthy habits for toddlers and young children.

For a period of 9 months, children were provided with 95% organic, healthy and balanced lunches and simultaneously developed a community garden within their school. Children demonstrated a desire for healthy nutritional habits and developed an understanding on the origin of food and the importance of tasting products coming directly from their own community garden. We were very excited to see 4 year olds crunching on raw green peppers and fava beans and baking bread and cakes using organic whole-wheat flour.

However, we realized that despite raising awareness on healthy eating habits with children, we were still behind on involving families in this process. We decided to organize a parent and family interactive workshop discussing nutritional choices in terms of aliments at home and outside; nutritional habits (how do we eat as a family); steps according to ages (babies, preschoolers, children, teenagers, adults and the elderly) ; and ideas, tips and recipes to apply at home. We received a fantastic feedback from the participants which motivated us to run other workshops in other schools, summer camps and community centers around Morocco throughout the summer.