Guide to a Better Breakfast

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What was the best breakfast you ever

had?

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Breakfast in AfricaThere is lots of poverty in Africa, meaning many children cannot have a healthy breakfast

Many of the children who can afford to go to school walk long distances to school, and without breakfast

How do you think this affects their education?

Breakfast in AfricaHow do you think this lack of food affects their health?

If their parents become sick too, they skip school to make money or grow food for their families

This can happen for years in a row and some never get an education

Your ImpactYou can make a difference by fundraising in your school

Every £1 you raise will be DOUBLED by the UK government between 1st April – 30th June 2014

Double impact!

Making a Difference• Working with people like you, Send a Cow wants to raise

£500,000. When doubled this would be:

• £1 million!

• This money will go towards reducing poverty, hunger and malnutrition in Africa

• This means 5400 children in Africa will have greater access to food

How we helpOlivia from Uganda

When she was 36, her husband died. She was pregnant with her 6th son.

The oldest was 19 and the youngest 18 months.

They were so poor they often went for days without a proper meal, breakfast was rare.

Her eldest children worked on farms for 20p a day.

How much food could you buy with 20p?

How we helpOlivia from Uganda

Their poor nourishment meant they all contracted Malaria, the children missed school and work

We trained Olivia in how to grow food and look after animals

We also gave her a cow, which provided milk and manure!

They sold whatever they didn’t eat so they had more money

How we helpOlivia from Uganda

They now were nourished and they could afford the fees for school

Life was not easy for Olivia and her family though

Floods devastated the land

A very dry season followed

But her new confidence gained from working with Send a Cow gave her the courage to carry on.

How we help

Olivia and her family’s journey is far from over, but now they have nourishment and health, and her children can get an education

What do they eat for breakfast in Africa?

What are these typical African

foods?!

Identify the foods

What am I?

Porridge

What am I?

Cassava

What am I?

Chapatti

What am I?

Omelette

What am I?

Tea

What am I?

African Cucumber

African foodsHave a look at our African food gallery:

http://www.sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica/food-gallery

CaloriesWe use Calories to measure how much energy there is in foods.

1) The more calories, the more energy.

2) If you don’t have your daily amount of calories, how do you think you might feel?

3) If you have too many calories, what might happen to your weight and why?

4) Consider a family in Africa with no breakfast or lunch, how might they feel doing exercise?

CaloriesFood with lots of calories are foods that have:

1) Lots of fat

2) Lots of sugar

Can you think of any examples?

CaloriesMatch the calories to the breakfast, try and match the food types too.

CaloriesPeanut Butter

Blueberry Muffin

Yoghurt and Granola

Bowl of Cereal

Bacon Sandwich

376 Calories

320 Calories

310 Calories

270 Calories

250 Calories

Sugar and Fat

Sugar Fat & Fruit

Dairy, Fruit & Oats

Dairy, Sugar & Cereal

Fat, Meat & Bread

Design your own Breakfast!

True or False?

Breakfast is not important Breakfast is very important, as it gives your body energy and helps you concentrate!

True or False?

Breakfast in Africa is different

Breakfast in Africa is similar to ours, but many people do not have breakfast.

True or False?Calories tell us how much energy there is in our food

True, the higher the calories the higher the energy content!

True or False?

Fat is good for us

We need fat in our diet, but only a little. Too much is bad for our bodies.

CompetitionDesign your own healthy breakfast recipe and send it to us.

The best healthy recipes will be put into our very own Send a Cow cookbook.

This will be put onto our website, and shared all around the world.

Your ImpactYou can make a difference by fundraising in your school

Every £1 you raise will be DOUBLED by the UK government between 1st April – 30th June 2014

Double impact!

Thank You!For more resources visit:

www.sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica

Help learn about vegetables with this great resource: www.sendacow.org.uk/lessonsfromafrica/resources/fruit-veg-shapes