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Avocado Taste Test at Gentilly East Head Start

In February, we visited schools and Head Starts in Mississippi and Louisiana who received The OrganWise Guys materials thanks to the Thriving Communities, Thriving Children project, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. We loved seeing all the great nutrition education programming happening at these sites! (more…)

St. Peter Claver OWG Assemblies

Last fall, St. Peter Claver School in New Orleans held their school-wide OrganWise Guys assemblies to kick off programming. Thanks to funding from the WK Kellogg Foundation, St. Peter Claver is using their OrganWise Guys materials to teach children about healthy eating in the classroom and the cafeteria.
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Thriving Communities, Thriving Children – Welcome New Foodservice!

A huge thank you to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for funding the new project called Thriving Communities, Thriving Children (TC2)! This fall, we had a blast kicking off The OrganWise Guys programming with early childcare/Head Start centers and elementary schools in Louisiana and Mississippi.

A warm OrganWise welcome to the cafeteria staff at the new elementary schools who are now using their Foods of the Month Kits! And a huge THANK YOU to Foodservice Directors Ms. Janet Sanderson in New Orleans and Ms. Ashley Harris and Ms. Sarah Steinberger in Pascagoula! We are so thankful for their hard work and can’t wait to share all the great things they are doing with these educational kits.

Ms. Laurent, cafeteria manager at St. Peter Claver, shows off her Foods of the Month newsletters on display in the cafeteria!

Ms. Laurent, cafeteria manager at St. Peter Claver, shows off her Foods of the Month newsletters on display in the cafeteria!

 

OWG Cafeteria Staff Training - Pascagoula, MS 1

Foodservice Managers in Pascagoula, MS are trained on the Foods of the Month Kit

Thriving Communities, Thriving Children – Welcome New Schools!

A huge thank you to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for funding a new project called Thriving Communities, Thriving Children (TC2)! This fall, we had a blast kicking off The OrganWise Guys programming with early childcare/Head Start centers and elementary schools in Louisiana and Mississippi.

A warm OrganWise welcome to the new elementary school sites who are having fun using their OrganWise Guys Core Kits. The following locations have received their materials and training thanks to the three-year TC2 grant:

Arlington Elementary – Pascagoula, MS
Beach Elementary – Pascagoula, MS
Cherokee Elementary – Pascagoula, MS
Central Elementary – Pascagoula, MS
Martin Bluff Elementary – Pascagoula, MS
Lake Elementary – Pascagoula, MS
College Park Elementary – Pascagoula, MS
Gautier Elementary – Pascagoula, MS
St. Alphonsus Catholic School – New Orleans, LA
St. Peter Claver Catholic School – New Orleans, LA

A school training in Pascagoula, MS

A school training in Pascagoula, MS

School staff being trained at St. Peter Claver in New Orleans

School staff being trained at St. Peter Claver in New Orleans