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Royal Health Awareness Society
Annual Report 2018
Letter from the Director General
It gives me great pleasure to share of the World Food Program,
with you our annual report for the continued to empower local
year 2018, as a testament of the hard community based organizations to
work and commitment of our team, produce fresh local meals for 57,000
partners and supporters towards students in 11 poverty pockets
advancing the health of people in through the Healthy Kitchen Project,
Jordan. part of the School Feeding Program.
The project provided over 300 job
During the past year, RHAS has opportunities mainly for women in
focused its efforts on expanding the those areas.
outreach of its programs as well as
implementing advocacy activities. Youth remain a priority for RHAS.
The Healthy Schools program, In 2018, Shababna: Youth for
serving as an umbrella for multiple Health program has been on very
health awareness projects, reached high demand in Jordan’s largest
to 527 schools and 338,708 students universities: Jordan University,
across the Kingdom. Jordan University for Science
and Technology, and Hashemite
For the third year, RHAS continued to University, where our health
focus on preventing risky behaviors awareness content has been
amongst children and adolescents institutionalized as an elective
through implementing “Generations course for university students from
Protected”initiative, and encouraging all faculties..
youth to spread awareness through
art and films, through the second RHAS community based programs
edition of Mentor Arabia Short Film such as the “Healthy Community
Competition. Clinic” in collaboration with the
Ministry of Health, has also expanded
As for nutrition and healthy eating, the past year, reaching to at least
RHAS, with partnership and support 15,000 direct beneficiaries with
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