Healthy Families Project Photos

In the Healthy Families project, the Puente staff

  • teach women about how amaranth can help improve the health of their families,
  • facilitate participatory cooking and planting workshops, and
  • conduct home visits to provide support.

Read more about the Healthy Families project.

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During a cooking demostration, women prepare empanadas with amaranth flour and leaves Women feast on an amaranth meal they have prepared together Women participate in an activity A project participant shows off her amaranth garden One month old amaranth plants Women participate in an activity teaching about three essential food groups Puente's food groups game completed by participants Women cooking an amaranth meal during a Puente workshop Puente staff explain malnutrition and its severity to project participants Puente staff member discusses amaranth's history in Mexico Women enjoy themselves during Puente's amaranth workshop A woman listens to Puente's workshop on amaranth Women prepare a meal with amaranth Puente staff member works with women to prepare a meal with amaranth A project participant begins cooking rice with amaranth After working together to prepare their meal, participants feast together After working together to prepare their meal, participants feast together Puente staff member reminds participants of what they have learned and sets the date for next month's workshop Puente staff member explains they types of amaranth and how to plant it in the participant's gardens Women prepare alegrias (a typical amaranth treat) During a home visit with project participants, Puente staff member helps prepare an amaranth meal Participant pops raw amaranth seed to create amaranth cereal Participants wait patiently to begin an amaranth planting demonstration After preparing soup with amaranth, participants eat together A little girl snacks on an amaranth alegria while her mother listens to the Puente workshop Participants pop amaranth seeds to make cereal during a cooking demonstration Women prepare ingredients for an amaranth meal Participants work together to make amaranth tortillas Participants work together to make amaranth tortillas Children of participants snack on the amaranth meal Children of participants snack on the amaranth meal A little girl enjoys an amaranth alegria that her mother made during a Puente workshop Women enjoy their amaranth meal