Healthy eating - we hear a lot about it - but it's not easy to maintain because most affordable and available food choices are fatty, greasy, and carb-y - which also makes them, NICE.
But one PUP politician is trying to get the school kids in his area attend to heather eating choices. Paul Thompson invited us to James Garbutt Seventh Day Adventist to share the program that he's had in effect at area primary schools for the past few months:
Paul Thompson- PUP Std. Bearer, Albert
"A recent study that I read indicated that 49% of children in Belize live in some level of poverty. As the aspiring area representative for the Albert division we wanted to address this need. So, we collaborated with the Belize City Council from the Standard Bearer's office in the Albert Division and we are having an initiative called Healthy-Eats. This Healthy-Eats initiative is an initiative where for the last few months, two weeks out of the month we provide a combination of apples and bananas or apples and orange juice to over 600 children in the Albert Division. Those schools, mainly, the Wesley lower school, James Garbutt lower school, and Calvary Temple lower school. We would have hoped that we could do this every day of the month to provide these Healthy-Eats for our children. But, as you know, we are not the government, so the resources we have, we try to do with what we have. We provided for the mornings, because we believe that a healthy meal is an important tool for our children to have a better education and a better environment for them to learn. We not only have to provide a nourished education to our children but we literally have to nourish our children. Not with just food, not with fired chicken and biscuit and ideal and all of that. But we want to provide healthy living. So, that is why we selected and we chose bananas and apples and orange juice."
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