Our health and nutrition program aims to improve the lives of children and families with an integrated approach on healthcare. Through an increased focus on prevention, our team promotes healthy lifestyles and builds awareness through school-level education campaigns.

Our campaign goals intend to share knowledge that will contribute to behavioral change. Throughout many years ANF has targeted school centers to deliver multiple educational campaigns as it is easier for children to learn and acquire new healthy habits.

Some of our campaigns to promote healthy habits are:

MI PLANETA VERDE

Mi Planeta Verde campaign contributed in 2014 to improve the knowledge on environmental protection in 25 elementary schools of ANF´s network. This campaign was sponsored thanks to our friends of BAC Credomatic.

PERSONAL HYGIENE

In 2014, ANF and UNILEVER joined forces to deliver good practices and promote healthier lifestyles on personal and school hygiene for students from the San Martin de Porres school located in Ciudad Sandino, Managua.

CAMPAÑA DE COLORES

Our Campaña de Colores is one of ANF’s biggest campaign focused on healthy nutritional habits.

Created as an alliance between ANF and Fundación FEMSA, Campaña de Colores was the first experience in school-level campaigns for ANF´s health and nutrition program. The campaign aims to bring a new generation of children with different eating habits to help them achieve a better health, life quality, and prevent chronic diseases related to poor eating habits (diabetes, cholesterol, and hypertension).

This campaign also creates awareness about the importance of hand washing, toothbrushing, and healthy habits such as eating a well-balanced diet, practicing sports, and staying hydrated.

Campaña de Colores has benefited approximately 20 primary schools for each year it has been implemented. Starting in 2013 and continuing in 2015, 2016-2017, 2020-2021, this campaign has strived thanks to the support of many partner organizations.

PREVENTION OF MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES

From 2014 through 2018 ANF’s health team raised awareness in 20 schools of our network on the threats of mosquito-borne diseases. This campaign allowed children to identify the mosquito larvae, how mosquitoes lay their eggs, and how long it takes for the larvae to become a mosquito.

Through this knowledge, we encourage families and communities to develop protective measures to avoid the threats of the aedes aegypti mosquito.

WASH

Our Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) campaigns improve children’s hygiene by teaching them correct hand-washing techniques.

All our health-related campaigns contain this topic as a proper handwashing is essential to prevent many diseases.

YO QUIERO MI NICARAGUA LIMPIA

Hygienic conditions are a decisive factor in avoiding vectors, transmitted, and infectious diseases.

Our Yo Quiero Mi Nicaragua Limpia campaign contributes to the formation of a new generation that is responsible and takes of their surroundings and achieves a healthier environment to improve their quality of life.

Our first step in the campaign was to teach children the habit of not littering and then inspiring best practices through the application of the 6R’s method (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Responsibility and Respect).

With the support of Grupo Pellas, individual donors, and partner organizations, Yo Quiero Mi Nicaragua Limpia was implemented in over 20 schools for each year it was executed.

From 2015-2020 and 2022, this campaign has promoted respect, care, and commitment towards our environment.

Thank you to the commitment and support of organizations and individuals these health campaigns are possible.

ANF’s team will keep striving to promote healthy lifestyles that will help improve children’s health.

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