In keeping with its commitment to promote good health, AJINOMOTO PHILIPPINES CORPORATION (APC) supports Department of Health’s Healthy Lifestyle Campaign. Through the Crispy Fry School Caravan APC sowed the seeds for proper nutrition and healthy lifestyle all over the Philippines.

Hon. DOH Undersecretary Ethelyn Nieto MD, MPH giving a talk on healthy lifestylein San Agustin University, Iloilo.

For Crispy Fry Senior Brand Manager Peñafrancia Alvina, “The Crispy Fry School Caravan is one of the many ways that Crispy Fry, along with the rest of APC, develops initiatives to nourish Filipino homes.”

Seventy (70) schools around the Philippines – 20 in the National Capital Region, 30 in Luzon, 10 in Visayas and 10 in Mindanao – were treated to fun-filled, informative sessions on nutrition and health. The Crispy Fry School Caravan began with an introductory talk by a health expert, who gave the students a refresher on the basics of good nutrition and personal health care. Students and faculty then joined different games that reinforced healthy lifestyle habits.

For regions struck by typhoons, a stress debriefing session was included at the start of the program to encourage traumatized children unload their bad feelings about the tragic incidents that they experienced. These sessions helped to relieve some of their emotional burdens.

The games began with the Healthy Crunch Bunch Test, wherein students answered the host’s trivia questions on nutrition and health. Keeping the fun amidst the competition, students moved to the groove of the Chicken Dance. Students raced to outwit others and raced to complete puzzles in the Crispy Fry Puzzle Razzle. In Teacher Kong Henyo, teachers and students joined forces in a guessing game about nutritional and health facts. Winners of the activities got Ajinomoto gift packs and other exciting freebies.

Students do the chicken dance during the South Luzon leg of the Crispy Fry School Caravan at Elizabeth Seton, Imus, Cavite

“The event provided information for the pupils to have health awareness. Our pupils had fun with the games and prizes prepared,” said Sheryl Silverio, Assistant Principal of Liceo de San Lorenzo in Sta. Maria, Bulacan.

Ms. Rowena R. De Guzman, the principal of National University in Sampaloc, Manila, lauded the program. “Thank you AJINOMOTO for bringing the Crispy Fry School Caravan here in our school. Now, through your fun games and prizes, our students have gotten even more eager and knowledgeable about their health and what they eat.”

Dra. Pearl Paredes-Gonzales gave a lecture on nutrition during the NCR leg of the Crispy Fry School Caravan at St. Paul College

The participating schools, students and teachers also had the opportunity to win important prizes for the schools such as Audio-Visual set-ups, E-learning showcase through the Crispy Fry Stack-a-Pack program.

According to APC President Mr. Katsuaki Ogawa “We in AJINOMOTO believe that students deserve only the best teaching methods and equipment to support their education, especially on the subjects of health and nutrition.” With the Crispy Fry School Caravan, we continue our work to ensure brighter, healthier Filipino children.”