Nutritional Supporting Education Program

In order to help Hope Primary Schools in impoverished areas to establish sustainable nutrition improvement mechanism, BYHEALTH and China Youth Development Foundation jointly launched "Hope Project - BYHEALTH Nutritional Supporting Education Program" in August 2013 to help improve nutrition and health of children in a sustainable and all-round way through cultivation of nutrition teachers of Hope Primary Schools, nutrition knowledge class and donation of nutrients.

Training of nutrition teachers of Hope Primary Schools and student nutrition class were carried out in Jinzhai County of Anhui, Tianquan County of Sichuan, Wufeng County of Hubei, Shizhu County of Chongqing, Liupanshui of Guizhou, Xingtang County of Hebei, Gongqingcheng of Jiangxi, Xingping of Shaanxi, Huai’an of Jiangsu, Fengdu County of Chongqing, Xinping County of Yunnan, Yinchuan of Ningxia, Qixia of Shandong, Shilou County of Shanxi, Zhuhai of Guangdong from 2013 to 2019. In August 2019, the program was held in Zhuhai, Guangdong in the form of Nutrition Discovery Summer Camp for the very first time. 150 students and teachers from Guangdong, Guangxi and Hubei experienced a wonderful three-day tour of nutrition discovery there.

To date, nutrition supplements were provided to more than 140 primary schools across the country and 460 nutrition education teachers has been trained; over 200 volunteers brought vivid and interesting nutrition knowledge classes to children, benefiting over 120,000 students in impoverished areas.

In 2020, BYHEALTH Nutritional Supporting Education Program joins hands with “China Education Support Project” (CESP), as one of CESP’s core programs, the program organizes college students throughout China to go to rural areas, gives instructions about children's nutrition, roll out social survey for diet behaviors and release a Survey Report. As the first education support project themed on supporting college students to carry out education support relevant to nutrition and health, the program aims to call for more public attention to the nutrition and health of children in rural areas, lead college students to discover the nutrition status quo of rural children from their own perspectives and resolve the nutrition knowledge problems of rural children with their favorable ideas and active mind featuring innovations and trends. Meanwhile, benefiting from the participation of BYHEALTH employees and social volunteers who acted as youth mentors and empowered college students with their own specialties, the program pooled the forces of all walks of life including the enterprise, college students and volunteers to form a public interest closed-loop for caring the nutrition and health of rural children and jointly advancing the development of nutrition and health education in rural areas. After strict selection, a team of more than 120 students from 8 universities including Tongji University, Sun Yat-sen University, Chongqing University, Nanjing University, Sichuan University, etc. stood out for giving instructions about children's nutrition and conducting surveys about diet habit in rural areas, covering more than 1,200 rural children.