Food safety is gold, and children’s health is a blessing. It is very urgent and necessary for children to “know and understand food safety”. On October 18, by the guidance of central government and All-Women Federation, China Children and Teenagers’ Fund (CCTF) together with other organizations and companies launched the “National Food Safety Campaign for Children” in Guangzhou.

Based on children’s food safety, the “National Food Safety Campaign for Children” aims to optimize children’s growing environment, so that more children and parents could have a correct understanding of food safety and learn how to eat healthily. Since its launching, the program has carried out more than 120 experience camps in 14 cities across the country, benefiting more than 300,000 people.

Group photo at the ceremony

At the launch ceremony, Han Lina, the director of Food Security Action Office at CCTF, said that food security is directly related to the healthy growth of children, this year came to Guangzhou, we hope to benefit more children and families in Guangzhou through interactive games and technology to bring food safety knowledge. 

Li Yanlin, Vice President of Women Federation of Guangzhou, expressed the hope that the participating schools could do a good job in the program, making a brand and feature, so that more children and families could benefit from it. Zhang Xiaoyan, Director of Public Affairs of Orion Food Co., Ltd., expressed her concern about children food safety and said that “Orion always cares about children’s food safety and health, and it is of special guiding significance for future work to be able to actually participate in such program”.

Leaders and guests delivered the base schools certificates

At the activity site, the participating leaders presented the education demonstration base bronze medal to the representatives of 10 donated schools in Guangzhou. It is reported that in the coming month, 10 children’s food safety mobile experience camps will be launched in these 10 primary schools at Guangzhou station. 10,000 comic books and 25 school resource kits will be donated for children, which are expected to benefit more than 100,000 children.

After the launch ceremony, parents and children took the lead to the children’s food safety mobile experience camp to experience. Some children reading comic books of children’s food safety in the service center, some children learning hand washing method at the washing equipment, some children playing monopoly games at th comprehensive experience area, some children calling their friends to use the touch-screen machine together. Among them, the most popular one was the VR glasses at food safety experience area. children can wear VR equipment to experience the food safety knowledge in the process of making virtual kitchen food and know what kind of kitchen environment can guarantee food safety.

Children learn about food safety through comic boards

In addition to learning about children’s food knowledge in the experiential camp, the program team of “National Children’s Food Safety” also invited Zhong Kai, the director of the “Expert of Food Safety Science Population” - Kexin Food and Nutrition Information Communication Center, to deliver a special class of children’s food safety class for parents and children.He used humor and simple way to let children understand food safety knowledge, and let parents know about common mistakes of children food safety and nutrition.

In order to make children feel the frontline of food production more directly, 44 representatives of teachers and children visited the factory of Orion Guangzhou by watching the process of food production and making food by themselves, children have had deeper understanding of the importance of food safety, and were more determined to pay attention to food safety in their daily lives.

Representatives from CCTF, Women Federation of Guangzhou, and other sectors of government and society attended the event, focusing on how to better carry out children’s food safety science popularization education, they spoke freely, sharing their opinions and ideas, and offering suggestions for children’s food safety science popularization. In the future, it is hoped that more companies and social personages with a sense of social responsibility will join the big family of “Children Food Safety”, and jointly create a Great Wall of “Children Food Safety” for children.