Nutrition Education Department
The Nutrition education department is part of the Community Nutrition Supervisory in the Food and Nutrition Administration, its main objectives is promoting and advocating for healthy diets and lifestyles. It is responsible for the following:
- Increasing the awareness and interest of people in nutrition
- Administrating, managing and planning community nutrition projects.
- Developing modern nutrition education materials/communication with a focus on children and youth.
- Preparing and writing nutrition articles to different local read media.
- Preparing literature for distribution on nutrition issues such as the disease related to nutrition, dietary fibre, or vitamin supplements.
- Prepare publications about nutrition such as brochures, booklet, pamphlets, and posters.
- Participating in displays and events related to health and nutrition.
- Presenting lectures and talks on different aspects of nutrition for:
- Schools from the kindergarten to high school for the students, parent, and the teaching staff.
- Governmental organization such as doctors as part of continues medical education, nurses of the ministry of health, employee of the ministry of social affair.
- Non-governmental organization and charity organisations such as .and non-governmental organization.
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