July's WIC Nutrition Fair

On Saturday, July 30th, W-CAP, in conjuction with WIC, hosted a nutrition fair on Utulei Beach.  It was great to enjoy even more games and sponsor then we have ever had before.  There was a water balloon toss through hula hoops, horse shoes, as well as our favorite bean bag, and spin for the prize nutrition games. 

We had around 175 people attend! In addition we had many healthy food demostrations - vegetable potato pancakes, white bean and basil soup, sardine cucumber cups.  All examples of great ways to use fresh local vegetables.

 

We would like to recognize several of our sponsors and thank them for their generous donations. We had better prizes and gift certificates then ever before!

Cost-U-Less - donated a grand prize of a gas 3 way cooking unit.  Thank you!

Ace Hardware
Niu Culinary Arts School
Carl's Jr.

KFC

Pizza Hut

Niuborn Baby Store

American Samoa Community College

McDonald's

Sea Grant

Origin Gas

Pritchard's Bakery

 

A special thanks to the following organizations for their participation - the Public Health Department, Land Grant Argiculture, and Efnep Nutrition.  Also appreciate W-CAP's agricultural specialist Brook Gurr  who shared her inspiration and talent for starting a family garden.

 

Health Heroes Nutrition Fair

Friday the 13th of May was a lucky day at Leone WIC Clinic.  Nearly 200 children and their families enjoyed a fun and diverse Health Heroes Nutrition Fair.  There was a lot of food, fun, nutrition games and gardening activities for all ages. 

We would like to thank our many sponsors who made this a very special day by donating several incredible door prizes - crock pots, blenders, electronic scales, a food processor, and many gift certificates for nutritious food from our favorite fast food restaurants.

We would like welcome several of our new sponsors and thank them for their generous donations.

Ace Hardware

Cost-U-Less

Niu Culinary Arts School

Carl's Jr.

KFC

W-CAP would like to give a special welcome to Rachel Shaffet who did a dynamic family fitness activity.

WIC Nutrition Fair

W-CAP has a working relationship with WIC to provide nutrition education, and the fairs like the one we hosted at the end of March are one avenue for disseminating information and provide ongoing education to fulfill our mission.

Life in Samoa always presents some unique and unexpected challenges.  The day of our WIC nutrition fair was no exception.  Despite the electricity being shut off and a ship that did not make it with supplies - we were still able to pull off a succesful fair and had lots of people in attendance. 

Clara the Clown with her balloon shaped fish were a huge hit!

Iron Man came and danced with the kids to show off his strength from eating Vitamin C, so he could absorb iron, and build muscles.

The kids loved the games - fishing for good nutrition, food bingo, potato sack nutrition relay, vegetable bean bag, an Easter egg hunt for fruits and vegetables, spin the wheel, nutrition treasure hunt and more.

The children of the island were introduced to peanut butter, banana and raisin sandwiches on rye bread. That was a great hit! The bread was donated by a local bakery, Pritchards, which began making whole grain bread nearly two years ago for the island.

The Extension Nutrition ladies from the Land Grant made nutritious berry smoothies for a delicious breakfast idea. Land Grant agriculture had seedlings of lettuce, papaya, eggplant, cucumber and tomatoes all available to help people in their gardens. The door prizes were great and included a baby quilt, baby bottle supplies, electronic scales gardening kit, 'C is for Cooking' children's cookbooks, girls Hawaiian jewelry, a leather bound Bible, religious paintings, t-shirts, mugs, key rings and gas burners.

Our sponsors included the following companies. Thank you!

Niuborn baby store
SMLS - Swap Meet Liquidation Store at Coconut Point

CBT True Value Hardware

Origin Gas
Pritchard's Bakery
Land Grant - EFNEP Nutrition
Land Grant--agriculture 

Sea Grant & The University of Hawaii

McDonald's

WIC - Women Infant Children

A special thanks to each person that made this event a success and to those that have not been recognized here, but provided anonymous donations, or volunteered their time to help.

Nutrition Fair

At the beginning of February the foundation put on a nutrition fair in Amouli. Amouli is at the other side of the island, and is one of the areas hardest hit by the tsunami. The road to get there is not great, and since many people do not have cars, Amouli is not heavily trafficked. Having a health fair out there was a big deal! It was as if the circus had come to town. The school even sent all the middle-schoolers and their teachers for the morning so they could participate.

W-CAP put on three different nutrition puppet shows.

We had a great DJ who really had the kids out dancing up a storm. He talked about the importance of exercise, and how exercise can be fun!

The children got to play games, try different nutritious foods, and talk to the different vendors whose main goal was nutrition education.

There were people from Land Grant who had seedlings and shared gardening info, people from Sea Grant who talked about eating fresh fish in your diet (surprisingly something they do not do a lot of. They eat mostly corned beef and SPAM instead), the Deptartment of Health, WIC, the nutritionists at the hospital, Pizza Hut who brought veggie pizza's and salads, and the gas company who provided burners for us to do cooking demonstrations with. It was all free for the families that attended and we were so happy how many people were able to attend and participate.  A special thanks to all those who made this event possible!