DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Juan Pablo Mellado / El Nuevo Diario

The Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is advancing by creating five food labs to improve the school meals offered in public schools. Chilean chef Juan Pablo Mellado recently visited to advance on the project that falls under the Food Meals Program (Programa de Alimentación Escolar) of the National Institute for Student Welfare (Inabie), an agency of the Ministry of Education. The FAO representative in the Dominican Republic, Rodrigo Castañeda, is a Chilean.

In an interview with Persio Maldonado of El Nuevo Diario, the Chilean advocate of better eating in Chile, explained the effort. He highlighted the intention is to create self-awareness of health, reduce the devastating obesity in children, feed and nourish 1.8 million school children nationwide. “Healthy people are more productive, less sickly and more...