Monday, April 16, 2012

Dr. Paul Johnston, BYU Nutrition Professor

Dr. Paul Johnston is a Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He is also developer of the "super cookie." In this talk he explains how the forces of agriculture and nutrition can come together in the form of a "school garden" to provide better nourishment for young people in Kenya.



On April 5, he gave this talk in Park City, Utah that was part of a conference convening in Berlin, Germany by the Gates Foundation on world health and hunger.  His talk was made available by streaming to Berlin.  The talk dealt with his international nutrition class' interaction with the children in Kenya serviced by Koins and SRA.


This is a great summary of the nutritional difficulties faced by the children of our service area of Kenya.  Dr. Johnston has visited Mnyenzeni, and established a relationship between his Nutrition classes at BYU and the young students in Kenya, analyzed their diets, and helped establish nutritional needs and the efforts of a school garden in Gona to better meet these needs.  It is a great example of how his expertise, the input of his students, the experience of Self Reliant Agriculture (SRA) and the facilitating of Koins has worked together to successfully improve the diets of this test group of students.  With the expansion of the rotational farm project through the cooperative efforts of SRA and Koins, we hope the future of the children of the Mnyenzeni area will be a brighter and healthier.

Many thanks to Dr. Johnston and the SRA for their willingness to work with Koins. 

Asante Sana!

IVL

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