Zomppa

Programs:

Zomppa raises food awareness by bringing food to life. We develop healthy food attitudes and awareness by relating global food issues to children’s lives through rotating exhibits that highlight different foods and cultures. In addition to being at family-friendly venues, Zomppa will bring the program directly to partner schools and community-based organizations. Using a cost-efficient mobile education model, we visit classrooms once every two weeks for an hour period over the course of one year. We also open the bus to community visit.

Every two weeks, a new culture or country is featured through which four standing exhibits present how food and healthy eating choices are connected.

Each visitor stops by the Food Passport Central to get his passport stamped. The large wall map identifies the geographical location of the feature country or culture and the four standing exhibits demonstrate how food is connected (i.e. Quechua culture of Peru – counting potatoes at the Peruvian “farmer’s market”, learning popular food staples in Quechua and Spnaish, learning about nutritional value and vitaimin benefits of potatoes and corn in Quechuan cuisine, and examining how soil consevation helps or hurts Quechuan farmers). The activity area provides space for a Quechuan elder to share a creation story about corn. The teaching garden allows each visitor to help plant and water herbs and greens. The teaching kitchen demonstrates how to make Peruvian corn tortillas.