Nestlé 'creates Shared Value' for Kelaniya Maha Vidyalaya
Nestlé Lanka continues to enhance the quality of life for thousands
of children in the areas of nutrition and water
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Ms. Indu Nandkishore, spouse of Nandkishore, Executive Vice
President of Nestlé worldwide and Ms. Dominique Hofbauer, spouse
of . Alois Hofbauer, Managing Director of Nestlé Lanka PLC
together with the Principal of Kelani Maha Vidyalaya, D.U.
Waragoda, inaugurated Nestlé’s drinking water fountain at the
school and presented certificates to the students that had
successfully completed the Nestlé Healthy Kids Programme
together with awards to the winners of the art competition. |
Nestlé Lanka completed its 24th Healthy Kids programme at the
Kelaniya Maha Vidyalaya, empowering close to 4,000 children with key
nutritional information.
The Nestlé Healthy Kids Programme is a global initiative by Nestlé to
address significant nutrition issues faced around the world.
Seeking to address nutritional concerns and sustain the country's
present trend of gradually decreasing nutritional deficiencies. Nestlé
Lanka joined hands with the Ministry of Education and the country's
premier higher education institution, the University of Peradeniya, to
develop an interactive, modern and easy-to-understand nutrition
awareness programme for Sri Lankan children between the ages of 13 to 17
years - an age group some classify as 'nutrition ambassadors' of the
next generation.
The programme educates school children on good food habits,
nutritional deficiencies, food related disorders, food hygiene, and
techniques to safeguard the nutritional value of food during preparation
and has already been implemented at schools across Sri Lanka for close
to four thousand school children.
The company also opened its 14th Drinking Water Fountain in the
country to supply clean drinking water to the students of the Kelaniya
Maha Vidyalaya school.
These drinking water facilities are in line with the company's
initiatives to support Sri Lanka achieve some of its Millennium
Development Goals.
Nestlé's drinking water fountains are built in schools, hospitals and
places of worship across the island, benefitting millions of people in
rural communities.
Continuing its efforts to manage resources through water and
environmental conservation awareness programmes, Nestlé also conducted a
water awareness programme for the school's students which addressed the
importance of clean, hygienic water, the need to check the depletion of
water resources and methods of water conservation.
An art competition on 'water conservation' was conducted in
conjunction with this programme. |
