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Delhi school kids to form human chain against junk food
Saturday December 17, 2011 07:30:29 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
students of Father Agnel School in the capital will form a human
chain Monday against the rise in junk food consumption among
school-going children.
Father Agnel's students have come up with this idea in the wake of
the Delhi High Court's direction to the central government to
initiate steps to prohibit schools from serving soft drinks and
junk food in their canteens.
"We are not aiming at complete removal of fast food as the extreme
of everything is bad, but we are trying to educate people and we
want them to know what they are eating instead of blindly
following trends," said Simmi Mahajan, event coordinator of Father
Agnel School.
"The capital suffers from a huge trend of fast food consumption
among youngsters, especially school and college students," Mahajan
told IANS.
Around 1,200 students are expected to participate in the event by
forming the human chain which will spell "No more junk food."
The children will also participate in a postcard contest, followed
by other awareness programmes such as street plays, T-shirt
paintings, and recipes for healthy foods, which will be discussed
in an open debate between parents, school children, teachers and
NGOs.
"There will be another hearing regarding this matter on Dec 21.
The students' postcards will be presented to the chief justice of
the Delhi High Court by the students themselves," Mahajan added.
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