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What We Do
Advocacy, Community Activation and Nutrition Educational Programme to Prevent Chronic Diseases and Support Good Health.
Eat Better South Africa (EBSA) is a community based NPC, which has run dietary education programmes to empower people to improve their health by making the best dietary choices available to them. The primary focus of Eat Better South Africa is to reduce the over consumption of sugar, refined carbohydrates, refined oils and ultra-processed ‘junk’ foods and to encourage consumption of affordable sources of vegetables, fish, meats, some fruit,legumes and healthier fats.
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Our Mission & Vision
Our vision is to create a better staple diet for the country, while supporting local community members, families, and newly diagnosed diabetics to improve their lifestyles with simple nutritional education and tools through our grassroots program implementation approach.
We believe in connecting those who should be connected and creating spaces for healthier and supportive communities.
Theory of Change
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The Team
The committed team making things happen at Eat Better South Africa.
Jayne Bullen
Co - Founder
Jayne believes research in healthcare needs better funding and strong minds. As the Chief Operating Officer of The Noakes Foundation, she established Eat Better South Africa alongside inspiring colleagues and Prof Noakes and believes in building stronger collaboration in the nutrition and science game. After realizing the dichotomy between brand research budgets and human health research, she decided to leave the formal research world, committed to bringing her global experience in big-biz research, systems, and policy change expertise into new areas to affect change in human health.
Jayne is an MBA Chevening Scholar, High Dip in Marketing and International Relations graduate. In her MBA at Leeds University, she focused on the regulation of marketing to children in the food and fast food categories, later conducting Pan-European media research and strategy evaluation in this area for various global health bodies and brands.
As an extension of her collaborative vision for the future of human health and better healthcare systems, she co-founded Nutrition Network and has been its Managing Director since it was founded in 2018.
Yvette Zihhalirwa
Program Lead
Yvette Zihhalirwa is an experienced early childhood development specialist and has over ten years of experience working in the NGO sector, both locally and internationally. She is a double board-certified Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) life coach and an educational institutes management practitioner.
Yvette is a trained early childhood development practioners with national framework qualifications, has a bachelor’s degree in the English language from Unicaf University and have received certified training from the Nutrition Network in LCHF/Ketogenic Nutrition and Treatment.
By leveraging her background in education and advocacy work, as well as harnessing her passion for community development, she has been fortunate enough to positively impact communities across the country and very excited to be leading a program that positively contributes to the future outlook of human health through nutrition.
Wren Olieslager
Research & Operations Administrator
Wren Olieslager is a trained business and marketing administrator, with a strong passion for people development.
With her diverse knowledge and experience in the research and business administration field, Wren has obtained many valuable organizational skills, which she hopes to utilize through EBSA while making a positive impact on community members’ lives around South Africa.
Wren says her determination to learn new things constantly, has fuel her with an ambition to continue her education journey and apply her learned skills to her professional growth.
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