WFP promotes healthy culinary practices in Holguín
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The World Food Programme's (WFP) ¡Actúa Difgerente! project in Holguín, Cuba, promotes a healthy culinary culture from an early age to improve the diet of children and youth, as announced at its National Workshop taking place in this eastern city.
On the second day of the event, which also brings together producers, specialists, and extension workers from the northeastern provinces of Guantánamo, Granma, Santiago de Cuba, and Las Tunas, participants toured social protection networks and supply systems linked to them in the municipality of Urbano Noris.
The National Workshop held in Holguín brought together producers, specialists, and extension workers from several eastern provinces, who toured social protection networks and supply systems linked to them in the municipality of Urbano Noris.
The project benefits around 290 students at the Raúl Gómez García Special Education semi-boarding school, located in San Germán, by providing fresh vegetables and root crops weekly at affordable prices.
The school received donations of equipment for food preservation and preparation, including refrigerators, pans, stoves, hot water purifiers, blenders, and mixers, enhancing the students' nutrition and overall development.
Children are also motivated through healthy food education, learning and tasting varied dishes such as mixed salads, positively impacting their families and the community.
At the La Isabela farm, belonging to the Mario Muñoz Credit and Services Cooperative, farmer Gilberto Velázquez in 2024 supplied more than four thousand kilograms of vegetables to the semi-boarding school, amid periods of intense drought and obsolete equipment.
The project provided infrastructure and irrigation systems with the aim to increase production capacity on the approximately two hectares of land, used for growing beans, tomatoes, okra, and eggplant.
The workshop included visits to local projects , conferences, exchanges of experiences, and presentations of results from the first phase of implementation of the KOICA program, launched in 2020, which aims to strengthen food security and gender equity in the region.