School Lunch Box Program, an awareness campaign to promote preventive behaviours

As part of the Ministry of Health and Prevention's ongoing efforts to organize awareness programs aimed at promoting preventive behaviours and sound practices among the children, and within MoHAP's keenness to raise healthy and active generations, provide mental and physical safety, and enhance healthcare levels according to the best international practices. The School Lunchbox' program has been launched which is includes several innovative awareness activities that aim to provide parents with the necessary skills to prepare their kids' lunchboxes and encourage them to eat healthy foods and avoid calorie-rich ones.  

The program involves a set of educational activities aimed at raising mothers' awareness about the proper ways to prepare the lunch box, in addition to virtual culinary courses to inform community members about the healthy ingredients of the school lunchbox and ways of its storage.

It also includes a live cooking show on how to prepare snacks and healthy meals, in addition to handing out recipe booklets, and lunch box packing tips at the shopping malls across the country.

The School lunch Box Programme supports the objectives of the national plan to combat childhood obesity and achieve the national strategy to reduce the prevalence of obesity among children, within the framework of a responsive and sustainable healthcare system that aims to enhance its primary role in the prevention of obesity-related disease. Hence the importance of this program that aims to raise the community's awareness about the need to provide healthy food for school students, build the capacity of the community to adopt healthy lifestyles and equip them with the necessary skills, create a health-supportive environment, and engage community bodies and institutions in health promotion programs.