Food safety camp raises students’ awareness
The Walmart Foundation has teamed up with a series of NGOs in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province, to launch a new program teaching children food safety.
The National Children’s Food Safety Guard Campaign is being jointly launched with the China Children and Teenagers Foundation and the China Nutrition and Health Food Association. It aims to promote children’s physical and mental health, as well as to create a harmonious society.
The Hangzhou campaign will see 10 experience camps held in eight primary schools and two communities this month. Over the events, an estimated 10,800 comic books and 1,000 hands-on learning boxes will be donated, benefiting at least 60,000 children.
Han Lina, director of the Office of Children’s Food Safety Protection Campaign in CCTF, said: “We have carried out 117 experience camps in 13 cities nationwide since the launch of the campaign, benefiting more than 300,000 people. This year, we will carry out 10 experience camps in Hangzhou to bring the joy of learning food safety to children.
“Meanwhile, we will donate over 20 children’s food safety school resource bundles to Zhejiang province and other regions. I hope that this campaign can further strengthen communication and make contribution to children’s healthy development.”
Yang Wen, local corporate affair director of Walmart China, said the retailer’s charitable foundation has been funding the movement since 2016. “We hope that this campaign can spread food safety knowledge to the next generation, through experience camps in schools and communities. And in the long run, it will have a positive impact on children’s health and the sustainable development of food safety concepts.”
After the launching ceremony, the camp headed to the Hangzhou Danfeng Experimental Primary School. Students took part in a range of activities spread over five themed zones, including reading food safety comic books, learning the “six steps to wash hands” from a hand-wash sensor machine, a food safety monopoly game, and a touchscreen refrigerator clean-up game.
Particularly popular was a virtual reality kitchen, brought to life using the latest VR and augmented reality tech. In this activity, students learnt how to prepare food safely, in a wholly digital world, as well as learn the traceability system of pork.