Nutrición y participación comunitaria en las acciones de la Fundación Bengoa

Abstract

The aim of the Community Nutrition Foundation Bengoa program is to develop and strengthen skills and attitudes in food and nutrition in order to train leaders and multipliers in defence of the rights to food and health. It is developed through social projects in poor communities. This is possible through the joint institutions, organizations and companies who are committed to working with, to and from the community. The programme has several components: food and nutrition education, nutritional surveillance, participation, food security, environment, institutional coordination, and service management which are executed according to the mode of the project. The core training is the food and nutrition education. The Bengoa Foundation in nine years, has developed 16 projects in more than 80 Venezuelan communities. With one of his allies, pharmacy SAAS, for the last four years has been running a programme of education against malnutrition, which has produced six pieces of television and printed nutritional guidelines to communities. The community initiatives are effective to modify certain realities but essentially allow to increase awareness among all relevant stakeholders in the community, increase competence in the use of strategies and tools, provide new technologies to stimulate educational processes and generate changes that promote healthy living habits.