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Award Ceremony – Healthy Lunch Competition for Teens
Award ceremony of the 3 minutes videos competition on the healthy lunchbox ideas took place on May 23, 2016.Oxfam Great Britain in Georgia has identified and awarded the winners of the competition. Lenovo Tablet Computers and healthy fruit and vegetable basket of farmers’ production were awarded to the jury’s favourites – Mariam Petriashvili from Lagodekhi and Vako Maisuradze from Rustavi. At the same time, one of the winners was identified through the number of “likes” on Facebook. Pupil of Khidistavi public school of Gori municipality TamtaLotsulishvili has won the category with the total of 1278 likes.
Partners of the “Healthy Lunch Competition “Elite Electronics” and “Indigo” magazine have awarded special prizes to the following participants of the competition: Luka Tchkadua, David Philauri and DachiDatuashvili.
The competition aimed at popularization of healthy nutrition habits and encouraging healthy food usage in practice. 75 teens of 13 to 18 years from various regions of Georgia have taken part in the competition.
The event was attended by the members of jury: officials from the Ministry of Agriculture of Georgia and the Government of Georgia, representatives of the Disease Control and National Center of Public Health as well as representatives from International and Non-Governmental Organizations and teens from the regions of Georgia.
The competition was based on the findings of National Nutrition Research in Georgia, which was recently finalized by Oxfam representation in the country. At the Award Ceremony Oxfam has presented the main findings of the Research aiming to study the current nutritional state of Georgian population and analyse the population`s accessibility on the diversified food and consumption patterns as well as to increase the awareness on the healthy nutrition.
The results of the research prove that the problems with the usage of balanced (diversified) nutrition are in correlation with various factors, among them material, seasonal and geographic ones; the deficiency is revealed in the winter and early months of the spring and it is bigger in mountainous regions rather than in big cities. At the same time, one of the factors of unbalanced nutrition is the lack of awareness on the issue of the population, which is revealed in existing of wrong patterns of food distribution among family members, usage of unhealthy food, water consumption patterns and nutrition regimen disorders.
In the framework of the event full report of the National Nutrition Research was presented, the results of which is based on 1000 interviews throughout Georgia.
Background:
From 2013, Oxfam launched a 4-year European Commission funded project titled “Improving Regional Food Security through National Strategies and Small Holder Production in the South Caucasus”. Central to the project is the publication of gender sensitive food security and nutrition strategies in the South Caucasus. Food security is an important part of the agricultural policy framework and it represents successive social and economic policy, the main aim of which is guaranteeing citizens’ access to healthy and diverse food. For the additional information on the Nutrition Research please visit the youtube page: “Food Security – Support to Local Farmers” or the Facebook page of Oxfam representation in Georgia.
For press and media inquiries please contact:
Nino Gvianishvili, Oxfam Georgia Communications Officer: NGvianishvili@oxfam.org.uk
Maia Chitaia, Action Global Communications: maia.chitaia@actionprgroup.com mob: 599 49 00 12
