City Desk :
Students at a function have pledged to take nutritious foods to build themselves as the healthy citizens of the country.
The students of Muslin Cotton Mills High School in Kaliganj upazila in Gazipur vowed to ‘eat well and live well’ at the programme titled ‘Bhalo Khabo Bhalo Thakbo’ held recently on the school premises, a BRAC press release said. According to the Food Safety Net Services (FSNS) report 2015, about 36 percent children (aged 10-18 years) in the country are suffering from malnutrition while seven percent children have obesity. Speakers at the event said adolescents are taking substandard snacks and it is needed to change their habits.
All concerned should work together to change the way food is produced, manufactured and sold so that quality food items could be made available for the adolescents, they observed.
It is essential for them to be become healthy to fulfill the dreams, they said, calling for strengthening enabling environment to improve adolescent nutrition.
Under the project, Bhalo Khabo Bhalo Thakbo, being jointly implemented by GAIN and Shornokishoree Network Foundation (SKNF), over four lakh students from 1,000 schools across the country took the pledge in the last one year. Switzerland-based organisation GAIN and SKNF jointly organised the programme.
Nure Zannat, upazila secondary education officer, attended the function as the chief guest with Tapos Kumar Das, Headmaster of the High School, in the chair.
Oli Azad, Headmaster of Shader Gain High School, Momtaj Uddin, Headmaster of Baligaon High School, Abdus Sobhan, Headmaster of Janata High School, Dr Anika Tahsin Khan, Project Manager of SKNF, Ditipriyo Roy Chowdhury, Programme Associate of GAIN, among others, spoke at the event.
Students at a function have pledged to take nutritious foods to build themselves as the healthy citizens of the country.
The students of Muslin Cotton Mills High School in Kaliganj upazila in Gazipur vowed to ‘eat well and live well’ at the programme titled ‘Bhalo Khabo Bhalo Thakbo’ held recently on the school premises, a BRAC press release said. According to the Food Safety Net Services (FSNS) report 2015, about 36 percent children (aged 10-18 years) in the country are suffering from malnutrition while seven percent children have obesity. Speakers at the event said adolescents are taking substandard snacks and it is needed to change their habits.
All concerned should work together to change the way food is produced, manufactured and sold so that quality food items could be made available for the adolescents, they observed.
It is essential for them to be become healthy to fulfill the dreams, they said, calling for strengthening enabling environment to improve adolescent nutrition.
Under the project, Bhalo Khabo Bhalo Thakbo, being jointly implemented by GAIN and Shornokishoree Network Foundation (SKNF), over four lakh students from 1,000 schools across the country took the pledge in the last one year. Switzerland-based organisation GAIN and SKNF jointly organised the programme.
Nure Zannat, upazila secondary education officer, attended the function as the chief guest with Tapos Kumar Das, Headmaster of the High School, in the chair.
Oli Azad, Headmaster of Shader Gain High School, Momtaj Uddin, Headmaster of Baligaon High School, Abdus Sobhan, Headmaster of Janata High School, Dr Anika Tahsin Khan, Project Manager of SKNF, Ditipriyo Roy Chowdhury, Programme Associate of GAIN, among others, spoke at the event.
