Hope for Accessible Nutrition - Human Sustainability

In Dallas, working out of kid-friendly, PepsiCo Hope- branded trucks, our team entered underprivileged neighborhoods where children do not have access to traditional summer programs. It delivered nutritious breakfasts that included milk, an apple and a Quaker Oatmeal bar and snacks consisting of a Tropicana juice and a baked Frito-Lay product. Hope for accessible nutrition PepsiCo is promoting healthy eating snacks—including many PepsiCo price and access can contribute to hunger worldwide by developing new products products—to underserved children. and malnutrition. Along with global and rich in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, Additionally in 2009, the PepsiCo local partners, we are developing locally fiber, key vitamins and nutrients. We also Foundation contributed more than relevant fortified products and will use our are taking aim at a much broader issue: $3 million to key academic and commu- supply chain to distribute them to hard- how to bring sustainable nutrition to the nity organizations working to address to-reach communities in such countries world’s most vulnerable and underserved nutritional challenges in the United as Nigeria and India. Supporting interna- populations. States. These organizations included tional efforts to address chronic hunger In the United States, PepsiCo Hope is Tufts University Friedman School of in underserved communities, the PepsiCo our initiative to improve access to nutrition Nutrition, Children in Balance and the Foundation disbursed close to $4 million in urban communities. In partnership National Council of LaRaza, Cuidemos in grants during 2009 to organizations with Central Dallas Ministries, PepsiCo Nuestra Salud. including the World Food Programme Hope in 2009 piloted a mobile feeding We’re also pursuing sustainable nutri- and Save the Children. program in Dallas, Texas, delivering more tion initiatives internationally as a first than 50,000 nutritious breakfasts and step to understand how local food quality,

Hope for Accessible Nutrition - Human Sustainability

by PepsiCo on Mar 22, 2010

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