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Mais Unidos companies help flood victims in Northeast

This is the fourth time Mais Unidos Group and USAID have engaged in partnership to assist victims of natural disasters.

For the fourth time, the United Sates Mission in Brazil, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the American companies that participate in the Mais Unidos Group joined forces and resources to implement coordinated initiatives in response to the disaster and emergency situations in Brazil. In order to assist the people affected by the recent floods and storms in the Northeast region, the Mais Unidos Group is making available donations of cash, hygiene and cleaning products, clothes, volunteer mobilization and other resources. All the efforts are being implemented in cordination with the civil defense, the State and Municipal Governments, and NGOs.

--Released July 21, 2010 by +unidos CSR Initative, Read full article...

Kraft Aids Brazilian Kids

Northfield, IL — Kraft Food Foundation is donating $2.3 million through the next three-years to help alleviate malnutrition in Brazil, according to the company.

Kraft says it will work with INMED Partnerships for Children to launch Health In Action, a school-based hunger and healthy lifestyle program that will reach an estimated 675,000 people.

Health In Action will launch in nine cities across Brazil, and is designed to reduce hunger and improve health in kids ages five to 14. Utilizing the help of INMED specialists, Kraft says components of the program include: Nutrition and hygiene education; school-based and home-based fruit and vegetable gardens that can be harvested to provide meals; training for school cooks in food safety and nutrition; low-cost water purification techniques; and screenings and treatment for parasites and anemia.

--Released April 7, 2010 by Candy and Snack Today, Read full article...

KRAFT FOODS FOUNDATION AND INMED PARTNER TO ALLEVIATE MALNUTRITION IN BRAZIL

More than $2 Million Will Be Invested in Brazil's Poorest Areas Benefiting Approximately 675,000 People

NORTHFIELD, Ill., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrating World Health Day, INMED Partnerships for Children and the Kraft Foods Foundation are launching Health in Action (Acao Saudavel), a school-based hunger and healthy lifestyles program designed to alleviate malnutrition in Brazil.

The Kraft Foods Foundation is donating $2.25 million over three years to the project, its largest single contribution in Latin America.  This is the foundation's third major international community investment announced over the past year, following similar grants in Indonesia, Philippines and Russia, totaling $6.5 million.

Health in Action will launch in nine cities across Brazil, including Recife, Vitoria do Santo Antao and four other towns in the state of Pernambuco, which, like most states of the North and Northeast regions, has substantially higher rates of poverty and lower standards of living than other states in the country.  According to data from the Brazilian Census, about half of the families in Vitoria do Santo Antao and Recife live in poverty.  In addition, school lunches do not provide adequate, balanced nutrition, and there is a particular lack of fresh fruits and vegetables.  Other cities participating in the project include Curitiba, Piracicaba and Bauru.

"Kids must be healthy to fully develop and reach their potential physically and mentally," said Dr. Linda Pfeiffer, President, INMED Partnerships for Children.  "It is INMED's ultimate goal to rescue kids now from immediate, irreversible harm, and to prepare them to shape a brighter future for themselves and the next generation."

--Released April 7, 2010 by CNNMoney.com, Read full article...

Lyrics for Life

Project Promotes Creation of Community Gardens by School Children to Encourage Healthy Lifestyles

The Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF) is committed to preventing childhood obesity and promoting healthy lifestyles that ultimately empower each individual to take charge of his or her own health. 

As childhood obesity and poor eating habits have become the norm in many parts of the Western Hemisphere, PAHEF provided a grant to INMED Partnerships for Children to reverse the trend and teach children healthy habits in an area outside of Kingston, Jamaica.

--Released March 27, 2010 by Pan American Health and Education Foundation, Read full article...

INMED's Healthy Babies program in Peru featured by USAID's Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program.

--Released February 25, 2010 by USAID, Read full article...

Pan American Health and Education Foundation highlights INMED's Lyrics for Life program.

Project Promotes Creation of Community Gardens by School Children to Encourage Healthy Lifestyles

The Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF) and INMED Partnerships for Children are committed to preventing childhood obesity and promoting healthy lifestyles that ultimately empower each individual to take charge of his or her own health. 

As childhood obesity and poor eating habits have become the norm in many parts of the Western Hemisphere, PAHEF provided a grant to INMED Partnerships for Children to reverse the trend and teach children healthy habits in an area outside of Kingston, Jamaica.

--Released November 17, 2009 by Local Paper from Ucayali, Peru, Read full article...

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