Charity Partner
FoodSteps is a free school nutrition education programme for Singapore kids aged 7-12 funded through Halo Health Asia’s annual conference World Food Future for women (WFF), and co-funded this year by the Health Promotion Board (HPB).
The FoodSteps programme aims to augment the Ministry of Education (MOE) national nutrition education pedagogy already taught in Singapore primary schools, by focusing on fun and interactive workshops with an Asian lens, further strengthened by out-of-school based learning such as supermarket visits or urban farm visit.
FoodSteps also aims to connect the dots between food nutrition and food sustainability, in addition to zero food waste.
The programme will help teach Singapore kids the rudiments of making healthy food choices in a fun and interactive format, reinforcing learnings and bringing new perspectives to kids’ relationships to food.
The FoodSteps programme was developed in-house under the continued guidance of our FoodSteps advisors. To maintain the integrity of our programme, we draw upon the expertise of a number of key partners such as the Health Promotion Board and use a wide array of information sources from around the world.
By combining the rigour of expert nutrition advice with the discipline of educational pedagogy, our programme is uniquely Asian, up-to-date and fact-based tying in important elements in the circular food economy.
Key Issues
1) Tackle the rising levels of children that are overweight or obese.
2) Reinforce food education in schools.
3) Promote positive messages about healthy food choices.
4) Show healthy food choices can be affordable.
Key Objectives
1) To help kids recognise that food is a basic requirement of life with its intake having years-long implications and impact.
2) To equip facilitators with current food knowledge and happenings in the fast moving food world.
3) To encourage an appreciation and awareness of social, economic and cultural aspects of food.
4) To bring awareness of the connectedness of the food world.