Who We Are?
The story behind fennec Education
Fennec Education LLC was created after a mother found a way to make her children eat all their food. We are mostly talking about veggies and fruits, because we are sure at Fennec Education that you don’t have any difficulties feeding cookies or ice cream to your kids! 😉
While explaining to her children why it is important to eat each category of food for the different body parts, she found a simple way to guide them toward the basics of a healthy nutrition.
This is how “The Food for Health” series was born and Fennec Education LLC was created.
Welcome to our world filled with fun characters that will guide kids into an enjoyable journey with our “food for health” series!
With love,
Team Fennec Education
What we value, our “Why”
Fennec Education LLC mission is to empower children to help them know what is good for them by learning the basics of a balanced nutrition for a healthy life style.
We provide a constant learning about health, with a 360° view around human anatomy and food. Fennec Education develops educational contents that change children’s habits, giving the parents an alternative tool to help them shift their kids’ perception about nutrition and health, making them understands that choosing right will guaranty a healthier body, mind and spirit.
Fun facts
– The fennec fox is Algeria’s national animal that lives in its Sahara. It is also the author’s home country. She decided to use the emblematic mascot to illustrate the two characters “Kakayel and Béya”.
– The two fennecs represent the author’s two children.
– The fennecs’ names are the author children’s mispronunciation of their own real names, when they were learning how to speak.
– The illustrator of the book is the author’s husband.
– The drawings of the first book began when the illustrator was stuck at home for a week after breaking his leg. Boredom led him into drawing and then were created Kakayel and Béya! As learned from Dr. Srikumar Rao “Good things, bad things who knows?” for Fennec Education it was definitely a good thing 😉
– Coincidence or not, during the process of Fennec Education LLC’s creation in July 2019, the Algerian national football team also known as “Les Fennecs” won the CAN (the African Cup of Nations) on the 19th of the same month.
THE TEAM
Marcelino Badaoui BSCS | EMBA
Head of technology & visual art
Information Technology Director with over 20 years of experience in Telecommunication.
Got his BSc in Computer Science from the Lebanese American University (LAU) and his Executive Master in Business Administration (EMBA) from the American University of Beirut (AUB).
He is a telecommunication Information Technology Director with over 20 years of success strengthening the performance of mission-critical IT, mobile telco, Digitalization, cloud, security, and payment solutions networks.
Lamia Ghernati BABA | MSc PHNU
Founder
Got her BA in Business Administration from the Institut International de Management (INSIM) in Algeria and he Master of Science in Public Health Nutrition at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Her research interests are around the impact of nutrition and its quality on metabolic and mental health, as well as the use of technology in Public Health.
She previously worked in the telecom sector where she specialized in developing Value-Added Services (VAS) for the Business to Business (B2B) sector and more recently founded Fennec Education LLC, a company that develops tools for teaching children the basics of a healthy nutrition using the latest scientific research and health theories.
Her project NUTRIKID was selected by the Global Grad Show and MENA Grad Show to be showcased in their 2021 edition. This eLearning project aims to introduce children gradually to the fundamentals of human Nutrition and its relationship with their growth and optimum health using interactivity and gamification, helping them learn to differentiate between what is good for their health and what is not.
Rim El Helou BSNS | MSc PHNU
Expert in Diet & Nutrition
She pursued her BSc in nutritional sciences at the Lebanese American University (LAU). She also completed a MSc in Public Health Nutrition at the American University of Beirut (AUB) with a thesis aiming to investigate the socioeconomic factors that affect children’s food choices.
She works as a clinical dietitian and a research assistant on different projects mainly with UNICEF, AUB and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
She believes that nutrition is the cornerstone of prevention and therapy of many diseases and that good health starts from the beginning by endorsing healthy eating habits among our children.
She has been actively engaged in community work especially with children aged between 6-12 years old and she participated in developing a health curriculum for children in grades 4-5-6. Rim’s main research interests focus on understanding the contextual factors that affect maternal and children nutrition.