This year, Makif He’ Darca High School is taking part in a unique health initiative “Health Promoting Schools”, which aims to encourage students to take charge of their health and to lead a healthy lifestyle. Heading the program is social involvement coordinator – Ms. Yael Yamin, who has already initiated several health promotion programs. She shared future plans and asserted: ‘Our health is in our own hands’.
The program features include: Developing awareness; Mobilizing teams of student “Health Ambassadors” to meet weekly with Miri Rimon, the dietician, for lectures, and then to share the information in a constructive way with the rest of students of the school; Holding a walkathon that engages the whole school community – parents, teachers and of course all the students; Publications that raise awareness, and so on.
