The instructor was the Cambodian officer of FIDR who had a nutritionist certification of Japan.

There are many facilities that provide meals to children in Cambodia such as orphanages and schools. We provide support to strengthen meal service management and nutritional management not only to National Pediatric Hospital but also to other organizations that operate those facilities.

Among such organizations, French NGO, Pour un Sourire d'Enfant (PSE) is providing education, vocational training, and meals for children in deprived areas of Phnom Penh. It provides meals for 6,000 children every day at their facilities. PSE wishes to improve their management of meal service in order to provide hygienic and nutritionally balanced meals to children.

Therefore, FIDR has agreed to assist PSE. The first lecture, held for 16 PSE’s staff (cook, doctor, teacher, and babysitter) in early September, started with teaching basic understanding of nutrition focusing on the importance of nourishment and three food groups and their functions. Attendees showed their satisfaction by saying “it is useful both at work and at home”and “understood what was shown on TV and radio.”

Based on the experience through the former project to establish a diet management system at National Pediatric Hospital, FIDR aims to contribute to improve nutrition of even larger number of children in the country.

Aiming at improvement of nutritional status of many patients, we keep working with the nurses to establish nutritional management at NPH. We provide further support for them so that they can put the learnt knowledge into daily practices.