ISA Activity Five (Yoruba Medical Food)

Activity 5

 Title of the international activity

Yoruba Medicinal foods

Student Age: 9-10 

Teacher Responsible          Mrs Yussuf, Mrs Adekoya, Abiodun 

 

 Yoruba Medicinal foods

Exploring Yorùbá Health (SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being) saying about the relationship between healthy food, hygiene and good health ‘’Jẹun tó dára lásìkò’’. Children are groomed to approach good health from what they eat by recognising and acknowledging the importance of what they consume to their healthy living. Thereby, learn about Yoruba foods, snacks, delicacies, and the medical importance of what we consume, including the herbs and flora elements.    

 The project will also shed light on how Yoruba foods, cuisine, herbs and eating habits ensure sustainable healthy living, inculcate the culture in the children and sell the culture to our immediate environment and international communities through a partnership with another school.  

  

1.  Grace School Students learn to usage of Yorùbá aphorisms such as proverbs, adages and songs to illustrate this by the children. Grace School students will get hands-on Preparation of local dishes and herbs in Yoruba soup like Ewedu, Bean food like Moi-Moi. Yam potridge and Agbo herbal mixture as local beverage. 

 














 2. Grace School students Morning Assembly presentation Awareness Programme: School Community enlightenment programme to about local delicacies with care and caution will be done in the school's Community.  

 









3. Partnership with International School G.D Goenka Public School. Dwarka , New Delhi, India: Cultural exchange programme: Grace School Students with partner learn Yorùbá and health through foods and what we consume and also learn about their own culture and food-related health. Getting access to Indian healthy living and their cultural foods, and their medical importance for sustainable health. 

 



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