On Saturday 18/09 the opening day of the course of the esplais of the Federació Catalana de l’Esplai was held. The event served to kick off the leisure education course of Fundesplai and where the educational proposal “Menjar canvia el món”” was presented, for the right to healthy and sustainable food.
On Saturday, September 18, the Movidic, the opening day of the course of the esplais of the Federació Catalana de l’Esplai, was held. The event served to kick off the Fundesplai leisure education course and where the educational proposal ” Menjar canvia el món”” was presented, for the right to healthy and sustainable food that will reach 115,000 participants among children or young people from esplais and schools.
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The objective of this proposal is to educate so that children, young people and families adopt, from their active participation, a healthy, sustainable and fair diet that impacts on personal health and, at the same time, on the global health of the planet.
The world is currently in a situation of climate, health and social emergency where food plays a fundamental role. On the one hand, the Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that in 2020 about 800 million people are still hungry, while indicating that today 40% of the population is overweight or obese. On the other hand, the agricultural and livestock production system that abuses irrigation, intensive crops, industrial farms, etc. is in many cases an accelerating factor of climate change (CO2 emissions, excessive water consumption…), impoverishment of nutritional quality for people or food waste, among others.
Educate in healthy and sustainable eating
Fundesplai aims to contribute to improving the situation described through: “Menjar canvia el món”, which includes a whole series of pedagogical materials such as a website full of resources and activities, a notebook with the foundations and a pedagogical suitcase full of games and stories. All these elements will be complemented by a large exhibition of 1,100m2 , entitled “Menja. Actua. Impacta”, which Fundesplai will inaugurate on November 20, 2021.
Saturday’s event included the panel discussion “Why does eating change the world?” with the participation of Ana Moragues Faus, from the University of Barcelona; Gemma Salvador Castell, Dietitian-Nutritionist at the Public Health Agency of Catalonia; and Javier Guzmán, Director of Food Justice.
Different training spaces were also created to offer educators resources to work with children and young people. Altogether 11 workshops, among which one on learning to cook at recreation, one on how to make a garden at school or esplai, on how to work in entities the Sustainable Development Goals, another on the experiences of a pastor who will talk about field and gender or another on the impact that overpackaged produce on health.