The partners aim to combine their expertise in three key areas: organizing healthy meals for schoolchildren, preventing diseases, and promoting a healthy lifestyle among children and adolescents.
The Social and Industrial Foodservice Institute (SIFI), the CIS Basic Organization for School Feeding, and the Republican Scientific and Clinical Center for Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery under the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Tajikistan have signed a memorandum of cooperation aimed at promoting child nutrition and health.
Under the agreement, the partners will combine their expertise in three priority areas: organizing healthy and balanced meals for schoolchildren; preventing childhood diseases; and promoting healthy lifestyles among children and adolescents. The collaboration is built on a shared belief that investing in a healthy younger generation is essential to long-term national development.
The memorandum was signed by Vladimir Chernigov, President of SIFI, and Bakhtovar Shamszoda, Director of the Republican Center, during the 2nd International CIS School Feeding Forum in Dushanbe. It sets out a broad program of joint activities, including:
developing methodological guidelines and scientific publications on child nutrition and health;
organizing training activities — seminars, internships, and masterclasses — for doctors, teachers, nutritionists, and social workers;
conducting research on how school feeding influences children’s cognitive development and academic performance;
establishing monitoring systems to evaluate schoolchildren’s health in relation to diet quality.
The partners also intend to create a unified database and exchange information on modern technologies, equipment, and innovations in the fields of child nutrition and pediatric health.
This cooperation aims to strengthen the link between scientific knowledge and practical implementation, ensuring comprehensive improvements in children’s health and well-being.