Cultivating a Healthy Relationship with Food

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
devotes as many as 2 of its 17 goals to issues related to world hunger, food security, and improved nutrition, with the aim of promoting health and well-being for all people of all ages.

Nutrition education is a crucial element in the growth and development of young people. In particular, schools offer a valuable opportunity to promote and reinforce healthy and mindful eating habits.

Learning to maintain a varied, balanced, and sustainable diet from a young age not only promotes individual health, but also helps foster a positive relationship with food and develop a greater awareness of how one’s food choices affect the environment and the community.

These goals and issues are the focus of the civic education program at the
A. Frank Secondary School, Grade I, in Meda
for this school year, and they are addressed across various subjects.

Danilo Fumagalli participated in the workshop project led by Professor and photographer
Tiziano Masciadri
with his classes 2A, 2B, and 2E by providing the raw materials that became the subjects of the works created.
As the children learned and experimented with the photographic technique of “still life,” they reflected on the importance of the quality of raw materials—including their origin—with a viewtoward sustainable agriculture.

Below is a gallery featuring some photos taken by the children during this workshop.