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School Restaurant

Given the socioeconomic conditions of our children and students of the Basic School Caminos de Paz and the implications of malnutrition in the learning process, we feel the need to provide daily meals for which we have service of food and nutrition.

The minutes menues are focused on meeting the nutritional needs of students based on constant assessment of anthropometric measurements and other parameters that indicate nutritional shortcomings. We complement the diet preparing soy products and baked goods at the headquarters of the Foundation.

 

1.810 children are served daily in our diners, offering breakfast, lunch and snacks with high nutritional quality standards.

We have three school restaurants were we serve 610 children in the neighborhood Llanaditas, 535 children in Caicedo and the settlement Esfuerzos de Paz, 178 children in the neighborhood 8 de Mayo. In addition to 487 more children that also receive lunch.

The Social Welfare Department of the Municipality supports our work, but because of the high demand and nutritional deficiencies of our children, we must constantly look for aid to support the restaurants.

 

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Nutrition program for pregnant and lactating mothers

nutrition program for pregnant and lactating mothers

This program targets pregnant and lactating women in order to provide nutritional support during the first months of pregnancy and the first months of life to avoid children with nutritional problems.

Workshops and lectures are held monthly on topics such as: the importance of prenatal care, nutrition, breast feeding, breast feeding and extraction technique, complementary feeding, among others. Every mother and baby has nutritional record so we can do a follow up and to be able to diagnose, this way if it is necessary they can be sent to other institutions.

 

Center for Nutritional Care and Support

A beautiful program on which we attend 100 babies under 3 years old at nutritional risk. These little ones present show signs of malnutrition that are reflected in the skin, hair and their weight and height are below normal, they also present delayed growth and development.

Thanks to the Foundation Sofía Pérez de Soto, the Foundation Las Golondrinas can improve the quality of life of these children by providing a balanced, varied and adequate breakfast, midmorning snack, lunch and after-lunch, and a supplement that is given to them to take home after leaving the Center for Nutritional Care and Recovery.

The attention of these 100 babies is accompanied by regular monitoring of nutritional status and medical accompaniment for the management of health conditions and the opportune referral to other institutions.

The model of attention

  1. Nutritional and Health Care
  2. Pedagogical attention
  3. Psychosocial Care