Faculty of Health Sciences – Community Nutrition Education Programme

Community Nutrition Education Programme, developed by the Faculty’s Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, with the objective of promoting positive Behavioural changes and enhancing knowledge in communities to alleviate Severe Acute Malnutrition.

The Programme has been running since 2015 and while the third-year students have limited sessions, the fourth-year students must complete a 10-week block in community nutrition. The fourth-year students (around 21 students) each do a 10-week block in community nutrition.  Each of them is based at a clinic or community health centre and from there they work with the patients (in total around 20 per student), children in schools (a class of at least 30), children at early childhood development centres (around 10-30 %) and homes for the aged. 

They also do community outreach interventions such as a stall at a school sports day.