Let’s Become Friends with Vegetables

On March 6^th, 2014, volunteers from Cardinal Health (China) brought fresh vegetables to one of KidStrong program partner schools, Xi Shan Kindergarten, to introduce  and become friends with vegetables, encouraging the students to ask their parents to add vegetables to their daily meals.

The volunteers put on a disguise as popular cartoon characters to gain the trust of the students.As soon as the students saw the disguised volunteers, they actively participated in the game.  The voluntters invited the students to guess vegetables through riddles, to guess vegetables through just touch and smell, and to play games such as  “Vegetable Squat.” Through these activities, the students got to know more about vegetables, to be fond of vegetables, and increased their eagerness  to eat more vegetables.

All 400 students of Xishang Kindergarten are from migrant families. Last year, staff of Cardinal Health China and all its subsidiary companies donated in the name of “Mission Protein”. The money donated went directly to the Nutrition project within KidStrong, to purchase high protein food for the students of Xishan Kindergarten, allowing them to have a healthier life.