Promoting Real Healthy Families: Home Economics

A campaign to increase local visibility

A part from the international visibility on the platform of GlobalGiving: Kole Intellectual Forum is fully campaigning to increase its local visibility among the community every Sunday during the school days. Girls are engaged to visit the sick within the community, visit the sick at the hospital or help them of what the organization can afford or to move to the prisons to see the inmates, to pray with them or to encourage them during that difficult time. Or sometimes they would just be sent out for a country walk to refresh themselves from the stress of learning.

Through all these exercises, the students of Kole Intellectual Forum in one way or another is learning something of value in their lives or refreshing their mindset out of school environment. Above all, they are also letting the community to know about them of what the organization is for, what they do, how they do it, and so on…

Spending time at the natural environment – a healthy body

Taken as a whole, the studies conducted by Kole Intellectual Forum through Googleallsearch Engine, book work and physical research, confirm that spending time in nature is part of a ‘balanced diet’ of childhood experiences that to promote children’s healthy development, well-being and positive environmental attitudes and values. The findings are summarized as recorded below.

• Spending time in natural environments as a child is associated with adult pro-environment attitudes and feelings of being connected with the natural world, and is also associated with a stronger sense of place.

• Living near to green spaces is associated with greater physical activity.

• Spending time in nearby nature leads to improvements in mental health and emotional regulation, both for specific groups of children (such as those with ADHD) and for children as a whole.

• Children who take part in school gardening projects improve in scientific learning more than those who do not, and have healthier eating habits.

• Experience of green environments is associated with greater environmental knowledge.

• Play in natural environments leads to improvements in motor fitness for all sorts of human being.