Summer 2011

An increasing number of applications

The Louis Bonduelle Foundation received 122 applications for its Summer 2011 call for proposals.

All the projects proposed aim to improve eating habits among individuals. Most of them deal with France and Canada, while others deal with Ecuador, Haiti, Madagascar, Togo, Benin, Vietnam and Italy.

It's never too late - nor too early, for that matter - to discover vegetables and learn how to cook them. In fact, 24% of the projects involve families, 18% involve children and 14% are intergenerational. Other projects involve adolescents and students, adults, and underprivileged population groups.

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The projects backed

• St André Town Council – France (59): Activities in hypermarkets to give families a new desire and the means to eat vegetables in all their forms (fresh, canned, frozen) such as creating settings specific to the fruit and vegetables on the shelves or events teaching how to cook vegetables

• Count on Tomorrow - Ecuador (Quito): Growing vegetables, gardening lessons to improve the nutrition of children from the poorest districts of Quito, Ecuador

• "Les Dominicaines" nursing home, Hardinghen – France (62): Cooking activities to give or revive pleasure in eating with age-related constraints: creating a vegetable garden, cookery classes, memory and sensory workshops on growing vegetables, tastes, smells, etc.

• Madagasikara Miantoka - Madagascar: Improving nutrition by creating school vegetable gardens as a development opportunity for future generations

• Vacances Handicap Atout Sportif International (VHASI) Association – France (69): Setting up activities based around healthy eating for people with learning disabilities

• Marina D'Osari School Parents' Association – France (2B): Gardening and science workshops are offered to parents and pupils of the school so that they can discover and appreciate fruit and vegetables as well as make them aware of the importance of eating enough of them. These discussions and debates led by a dietician will be offered to the parents and a stage show with vegetables for the children.

• Maison du Canton Association (Community Centre) – France (35): Putting on a show around vegetables with and for children to raise their awareness and that of their parents on eating fruit and vegetables

• Hospital Group at the Institut Catholique de Lille – France (59): Theoretical training in balanced diets for deaf cooking tutors who will then lead cookery workshops in French sign language.

• Centre Intercommunal d’Action Sociale des Trois Pays – France (62): Organisation of information sessions on the benefits of and nutritional needs for fruit and vegetables, presentation of a wide range of these products in different packages at attractive prices through a solidarity grocery, thematic workshops offering practice and transformation of fruit and vegetables by the beneficiaries

• Collège Clairefontaine – France (62): Cookery workshops for pupils with academic difficulties to enable them to discover basic food ingredients, cooking know-how and the mechanisms which affect our eating and which lead us to bad eating habits.

• Jeunesse Sans Frontières - Benin: Raising the awareness of destitute and low-income households about using moringa oleifera leaves as a vegetable and as a nutritional supplement in order to reduce malnutrition problems

• Ruffécois Community and Cultural Centre – France (16): Growing organic vegetable garden plots, raising awareness of organic gardening, and eating habits and cooking practices, as well as cookery classes to make balanced dishes and educate future generations and families in daily food ecology.

• Sercovie Inc. – Canada (Quebec): Setting up menus full of vegetables and desserts with less sugar for elderly people receiving meals at home.

• Family Ties New Carlisle – Canada (Quebec): Daily lessons for 4- to 8-year-olds on good eating habits, especially on the need to eat fruit and vegetables, then cookery practice using their knowledge. Parents are also invited to take part in a meal and debate on the health benefits of fruit and vegetables.

• Five spice workshops – Canada (Quebec): Cookery-nutrition workshops on the different vegetable families aimed at children then tasting of the dishes made

• Lajeunesse Community Leisure Centre – Canada (Quebec): Vegetable discovery, cookery and tasting sessions during the leisure time of 5- to 12-year-olds from about ten different communities.