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Nutrition + cooking +
youth work +
employment +
healthy lifestyle
Nutrition is one of the pillars of our well-being.
Often we note that underestimating this factor in our work in contexts of residential experiences such as youth exchanges, trainings and different kinds of camps, leads to waste the commitment on other levels such as those of the activities: the participants and the project team do not "produce" as much as they could, they lose lucidity, interest and the results get affected.
In some other cases, quantities are calculated wrongly, food is wasted or it’s not enough for everybody.
It happens also during those activities that people with specific diets are not supported by a balanced menu. We think that in the majority of the cases underestimating this factor is not done on purpose by the coordinating organizations but because of lack of a culture related to food and nutrition.
We also realized that capable staff who takes care of cooking balanced and inclusive menus for groups is not easy to find or it has a high cost, often unsustainable for the no-profit sector.
If we shift the focus on young people and on their relationship with nutrition, reports show that there is the need to improve their awareness on the impact that their eating habits have on them on the short and long term.
Besides the statistics, we see directly in our young people how little importance is given to what they introduce into their body (food, drinks, alcohol, smoke and drugs), as if the risk to which these habits exposes them is not real or is not touch them concretely.
Many of the young people we work with find themselves in situations of unemployment or at unemployment risk and they are stumbling into a still stagnant economy, although the centre of the economic crisis is said to have been overcome. We think that to support them it is necessary to work on several fronts, one of these is to stimulate the development of soft skills through non-formal education, another is to build more positive and proactive attitudes.
Through this project we want to work to bring solutions and results in these fields and use food, cooking and healthy lifestyle both as means and as ends.
A project with 3 Actions:
Training Course
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Advances Preparatory Visit
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Youth Exchange
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