Since 1999 The Department of Health launched the Healthy Lunch guidelines, our Healthy Living Department is working with Happy Holdings Limited and Vegetable Marketing Organization to provide “G-lunch” program. The goal for this program is to implement a healthy school lunch in primary and secondary schools in order to cultivate healthy eating practices, to facilitate the supply of healthy lunches and food items at school and to strengthen nutrition education so that children may develop healthily and learn effectively. Our services included consultancy on school lunch menus, nutrition implementation programs and parent seminars and training groups for students.
“SuperMama” – School-based Healthy Family Scheme
“SuperMama” – School-based Healthy Family Scheme is a project funded by the Health Care and Promotion Fund Committee. In this “Mama-oriented” health project, we trained working mothers and housewives to become health ambassadors of their own families and schools. Through training workshops on general women’s health, healthy meal planning and exercise using elastic bands, these Mama-health ambassadors learn how to look after their own health and reshape their families’ lifestyle. Through these trainings and activities, the importance of healthy living style already spread to 15 schools and 10,000 families.
Healthy Tack Shop Supporting Service
According to the guideline of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and the participatory research: ‘Building Healthy Tuck Shops’ – Healthy Primary School Tuck Shop Program, our community nutritionists assist the school tuck shop committee, which consisted of parents, teacher representatives and school tuck shop owners, by providing guidelines and suggestions in running a healthy school tuck shop. Through professional nutrition training and educational activities of healthy living in school, students will be able to have a healthy snacking habits as well as school tuck shops will be selling healthy, nutritious food instead of junk food.
