Making a Difference - Community Food and Health
Making a Difference - Community Food and Health
Making a Difference - Community Food and Health
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clubs in previous years. They plan to build the capacity of young people so that they can<br />
deliver peer education activities in their clubs or elsewhere themselves. Many of the senior<br />
members of the clubs have an interest in food preparation, cooking <strong>and</strong> a healthy diet <strong>and</strong><br />
many of these have expressed an interest in learning more <strong>and</strong> passing this information on<br />
to others in their youth clubs or the wider community.<br />
Heel <strong>and</strong> Weel initially started in 2007 when four young people came together to start<br />
developing the project. However, their other commitments, such as school exams<br />
prevented them from progressing the project throughout the school term. This peer<br />
education programme will be relaunched <strong>and</strong> will start again with planning sessions<br />
attended by all stakeholders, including the young people, who will be key to developing the<br />
project. The young people will attend short courses <strong>and</strong> get involved in promoting<br />
activities.<br />
Questions included:<br />
Issues on achieving st<strong>and</strong>ards in peer education<br />
It is very important that the peer educators have ownership of the project. However, they<br />
will be expected to have food hygiene skills <strong>and</strong> will be supported to achieve a high<br />
st<strong>and</strong>ard throughout the course. Peer educators will be able to take as long as they need<br />
to train to ensure they have the confidence <strong>and</strong> skills to teach their peers. They will also<br />
have the option to help others lead programmes instead of leading their own programme if<br />
they are not ready to do this.<br />
<strong>Health</strong>y issues particular to remote isl<strong>and</strong>s<br />
Although access to a wide range of foods, including exotic fruit, has improved in recent<br />
years, there remains poorer access to a wide range of fruit <strong>and</strong> vegetables in some parts<br />
of the isl<strong>and</strong>s. There is also no access to fast food outlets such as McDonalds, although<br />
there are local fast-food shops such as fish <strong>and</strong> chip shops. Households still have a<br />
tradition of eating together, perhaps more so than on mainl<strong>and</strong> Scotl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
See Appendix 3 for workshop groups responses to tasks.