Ascendia

Overview

This project aims to combat malnutrition by implementing a 4X strategy focused on raising awareness among schools and parents while advocating for policy changes. The initiative emphasizes the importance of integrating nutrition measurement, monitoring, and intervention into the educational system.

Key Components

• Awareness & Education: Targeting schools and parents to raise awareness about the critical role of nutrition in children’s health and development.
• Policy Advocacy: Promoting mandatory nutrition health check-ups in schools three times per academic year, with the goal of including nutritional indices in students’ annual academic reports.
• Holistic Health Focus: Encouraging educational institutions to prioritize students’ overall well-being, laying the foundation for early and effective health interventions.

Objective

To create a sustainable impact on children’s health by embedding nutritional assessments into the school system, ensuring that early detection and intervention become standard practice in educational institutions.