The acting counselor of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Government of the Canary IslandsAlicia Vanoostende, participated yesterday morning in the CEIP Los Cristianos in the delivery of the prize of the School Poster Contest of the 2022-2023 Fruit and Vegetable Plan aimed at the Primary Education students of the islands adhered to this plan.
It is a contest in which 75 schools have attended and whose objective is to encourage reflection on the benefits of consuming fresh fruit and vegetables in the context of a varied and balanced diet in which healthy lifestyle habits are promoted.
This state action called the Fruit and Vegetable Plan, promoted in the Canary Islands by the Canary Islands Institute of Agri-Food Quality (ICCA), has as its main purpose to promote and enhance the consumption of fruits and vegetables in the child population and to prevent overweight, as well as obesity and associated diseases.
The Plan consists of the distribution of locally produced fruit and vegetables to be consumed during recess by schoolchildren, thus trying to facilitate their tasting outside of other meal times.
Elisa Orsifrom sixth A of CEIP Los Cristianos, with the poster called Eating healthy, everything fits, has been the student of the winning class of this new edition of the contest, which will have as a prize a trip for the entire classroom to the Los Olivos Ecological Farm, in Gran Canaria, in addition to representing the poster of the 2023-2024 Fruit and Vegetable Plan.
Vanoostende highlighted the “transversality of a project that involves the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health, and which grows year after year, promoting among schoolchildren the importance of consuming zero kilometer products and knowing the productive reality of their closest agricultural environment” .
