The Preschool of the Future project in Longling County entered its second year with the support of China Merchants Charitable Foundation and implements the HPP China ’Preschool of the Future project model’. Currently 14 preschool classes in 5 townships have been opened successfully including Longshan Town, Longxin Towship, Xiangda Township, Pingda Township and Longjiang Township.

At the end of October, the project cooperated with the local township clinics to conduct the health check of 300 children in the 14 preschool classes. 297 were checked and 3 were not because of family reasons. The project team will arrange the three children to do the health check later.

The Health check report indicated that some children had anemia and mild malnutrition. The doctor recommended that parents of children with anemia and physical diseases to the county hospital for reexamination.

The project staff held parents’ meeting with teachers and parents for each village. They introduced to parents how to make simple proper meal. Nutrition and energy should not only meet children’s physical and growing needs, but also should not be too much. Overeating was forbidden. Form good living habits. Eat more vegetables and fruits. Eat timely with fixed amount of food. Do not eat snacks. Eat nutritious and more food for breakfast and simple and less for dinner. Parents should also be told to supervise their children to brush teeth in the morning and in the evening, rinse mouth after meals, eat less candy and do not eat snacks before going to bed. Parents should educate children not to be picky, eat more food with iron such as lean meat, liver, vegetable with deep color. Train children to have good and healthy dieting habit. Parents should limit children’s time of watching TV or playing mobile phone. Train children to have good way of reading books to reduce children’s sight problems such as short sight, weak sight, astigmatism etc. In the meantime, remind parents to ensure children to have enough physical exercises. Encourage children to participate in group activities and fitness activities.

This project is supported by China Merchants Charitable Foundation.