Nestlé S A CEO Paul Bulcke recently inaugurated the Nestlé Healthy Kids (NHK) Room at the Harbanspura School; it is being operated by Trust for Education and Development of Deserving Students (TEDDS). The Nestlé CEO during his short visit to Pakistan also met the children who have been there through the NHK Programme.
During his visit to the school Bulcke was accompanied by Nandu Nandkishore, Nestle S A Executive Vice President and head of Zone Asia, Oceania and Africa and Magdi Batato Nestlé Pakistan Managing Director as well as members of the board of directors of TEDDS.
The NHK Room has been designed and funded by the company under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which it had signed with TEDDS in April. The MoU was part of the global NHK Programme under which Nestlé, the world's leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness (NHW) Company, pledged to introduce healthy lifestyle lessons on all aspects of healthy eating, nutrition, and physical activity--to students aged 6 to 16 - through a curriculum-based initiative. Nestlé plans on replicating the design of the NHK Room in all other partner schools.
The company has also trained the school's teachers about how to teach the curriculum specially developed for the programme. TEDDS, which has more than 5,000 children enrolled at its various campuses, has already taught the curriculum to one batch of its students over the summer. Bulcke and Nandkishore asked the children questions about macro- and micro-nutrients and talked about the importance of a healthy and balanced diet and physical activity.
Bulcke said about his visit to the school, "NHK is part of our commitment to develop knowledge leadership in children's nutrition. A big part of that is our belief in nutritional education, which should start in school. We want to make the children mindful of the importance of eating right and engaging in physical activity. After meeting these children and based on the feedback from the school administration, I am heartened by the changes both the teachers and children have made in their lives after going through this programme."
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