Aramark Team Members around the Globe Join Forces to Share Nutrition Knowledge, Inspire Families to Lead Healthy Lifestyles
September 18 2017 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Global Day of Service Reinforces Aramark’s
Year-Round Commitment to Health and Wellness Empowerment
On September 20, more than 10,000 Aramark (NYSE: ARMK) team
members, including chefs, dietitians and human resources experts,
will volunteer to support community centers and nonprofit
organizations in the communities where they live and work, on
Aramark Building Community Day (ABC Day). Volunteers in 15
countries, including the U.S., Canada, Chile, China and the United
Kingdom, will lend their time, energy and expertise to over 500
service projects, which will bring health and wellness education
and workforce readiness programs to families in underserved
communities.
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On September 20, 2017, more than 10,000
Aramark team members, including chefs, dietitians and human
resources experts, will volunteer to support community centers and
nonprofit organizations in the communities where they live and
work, on Aramark Building Community Day. (Photo: Business Wire)
“At Aramark, it is important for us to fulfill our mission of
enriching and nourishing lives in everything that we do. Through
volunteerism on Aramark Building Community Day, we celebrate our
year-round community efforts and bring that mission to life,” said
Eric J. Foss, Aramark Chairman, President and CEO. “I am proud of
our dedicated team members, whose year-round efforts inspire
healthy lifestyles and make our goal of creating long-lasting
health and wellness programs possible.”
In addition to delivering on Aramark’s mission, ABC Day supports
Aramark’s Healthy for Life® commitment with the American Heart
Association (AHA), to improve the health of Americans 20 percent by
2020.
Volunteer projects will focus on “feeding the potential” of
participants through nutrition education, healthy cooking
demonstrations and more activities, including:
- Hosting food discovery
experiences, educational activities and tastings that teach
community members how to make healthier food choices.
- Revitalizing outdoor areas, such
as ballpark benches, park entrances, nature paths, community
gardens and outdoor pre-school play areas, to support active,
healthy play in a safe environment.
- Transforming community kitchens
by creating inspirational messaging in kitchen areas and assembling
new shelving and signage for food pantries.
- Creating healthy meal kits,
snack packs and healthy recipe cards to help support healthy food
discovery within low-income families.
- Enhancing workforce readiness
through information and hands-on training from human resources
experts, to prepare teens and adults to find and keep good
jobs.
Many ABC Day service projects include food discovery experiences
that empower Americans to improve their health by making better
food and nutrition choices as part of Feed Your Potential 365, a
public health and well-being campaign launched by Aramark last year
to promote healthy lifestyles among all consumers, as well as
families in underserved communities and Aramark’s customers,
clients and employees.
As part of the campaign, Aramark established Feed Your Potential
365 Clubs around the country and expects to reach an additional
500+ non-profit organizations through a proven online health and
wellness curriculum created with the AHA.
The Clubs equip families with the knowledge, skills and
confidence to discover, choose and prepare healthy food through
food discovery and cooking experiences, combined with interactive
education. Participants in community centers that piloted the
program significantly increased fruit and vegetable consumption by
almost a full cup per day.
Join the campaign via the FYP 365 digital community
(www.aramark.com/FYP365) and Instagram
@Aramark.
About Aramark Building Community
Since 2008, Aramark has invested tens of millions of dollars in
expertise, financial and in-kind resources to strengthen
communities through Aramark Building Community, our commitment to
improve community health and wellness and help people succeed
through education and employment. Learn more
at http://www.aramark.com/responsibility or connect with
us on Facebook and Instagram.
About Aramark
Aramark (NYSE: ARMK) proudly serves Fortune 500 companies, world
champion sports teams, state-of-the-art healthcare providers, the
world’s leading educational institutions, iconic destinations and
cultural attractions, and numerous municipalities in 19 countries
around the world. Our 270,000 team members deliver experiences that
enrich and nourish millions of lives every day through innovative
services in food, facilities management and uniforms. We operate
our business with social responsibility, focusing on initiatives
that support our diverse workforce, advance consumer health and
wellness, protect our environment, and strengthen our communities.
Aramark is recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies
by FORTUNE, as well as an employer of choice by the Human Rights
Campaign and DiversityInc. Learn more
at www.aramark.com or connect with us
on Facebook and Twitter.
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