Healthy Kitchens and Cooking for Nutrition

Starting in 2014, Seeds for a Future was charged with field implementation of a major project on fighting malnutrition and emphasizing clean and healthy kitchens and households.  Funded by the Nestlé Nutrition Foundation of Switzerland, this project gave us the opportunity to work with 200 young mothers in a rural area of Guatemala.  In 2016 we were able to include women from another 200 families in a similar project, funded by the Taiwanese government.  

Thus, more than 400 rural women participated in small neighborhood learning groups on kitchen and household hygiene, safe food handling and preparation as well as tasty ways to include better nutrition in daily meals.  Even more important, Seeds staff made regular home visits to coach and encourage the women -- to drop off printed information, to answer questions and to reinforce basic practices.  It was heart-warming to see how much the women appreciated learning how they could keep their children and families healthier by preventing illness and serving high-nutrition foods.  Their joy at learning these skills not only resulted in better lives for their families, bur produced two other important results:

• The women shared their knowledge with their daughters, sisters, mothers and other friends and relatives, so that many hundreds of women absorbed these important lessons, and
• The women gained a sense of personal value and importance which they may not have previously felt, and which has empowered many to think of additional steps they can take to help their family's health and economic situation.

Both the Nestlé and Taiwan projects are finished now, but the Seeds Team has continued working with many of women who had participated, and of course, we offer the same training and coaching to women who were not part of either of the two large programs.

Your support has helped us bring coaching and training in Healthy Kitchens and Cooking for Nutrition to more than 1000 women in rural Guatemala, and has resulted in a better life for all their children and families.  Your generosity is making an important IMPACT.  Please join us in helping more women learn with joy and empowerment and DONATE TODAY!!