Food poisoning (foodborne illness) is caused by infectious bacteria, viruses, parasites, or chemical substances entering the body through contaminated food or water. According to WHO, unsafe food containing bacteria, viruses, parasites substances is caused more than 200 diseases from diarrhea to cancer. An average of 1 in 10 people in the world fall ill after eating contaminated food and 420000 die every year, resulting in the loss of 33 million healthy life years (DALYs). Children are more prone to food poisoning. Children under 5 years carry more than 40% of foodborne illnesses resulting in 12500 deaths every year.

With the objective to aware children, I raised the awareness program in Lotus English School located at Khairahani -6, Chitwan, Nepal on 20th of February. Almost 50 students of standards 4 and 5 participated in the awareness program. Children were not aware of food poisoning before, but I give them basic knowledge about food poisoning, its causative agents, sources of contamination, habits that should be adopted to cope with it.  There were so interactive and happy to get new topic .It was quite a great experience to be around children and give them some knowledge.

Thank you!!

GREEN CHEERS FROM NEPAL!

 Source :https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/food-safety