Wednesday 24 August 2016

Kitchen Workshop

Since starting to partner with Community Schools in 2007 we've helped the Head Teachers facilitate countless staff meetings and teacher training workshops, and have also created many opportunities for the teachers from all the schools we work with to meet their counterparts and spend time learning alongside, and from, one another.

It's been on our heart for a while to see the staff from the other areas of the schools get the same opportunity to undertake some professional development, and this week we managed to get the catering staff together for the day.

Disproving the proverb about too many cooks, we had a great day together. It was for a chance for them to share good practise, to troubleshoot different challenges they face and to receive some training on food nutrition and how to prepare healthier meals for the children under their care.
Rhi Cross from Arise facilitating the workshop with Joyce's assistance in translating
The participates really valued this time together and engaged in discussions with great interest, drawing on their experiences to support and advise one another.



In mixed school groups and whilst cutting up vegetables, the catering staff
talk through their menus and identify the different food groups present
Together we prepared our lunch using preparation techniques passed on by our guest from Arise, Rhi Cross. Arise work with orphans, vulnerable children and their carers in a community just outside Ndola. If you'd like to find out more about their work and ways you can support them click on the following link.

                   

Margaret, Head Cook fro Greater Joy, enjoying looking on whilst
Rhi begins the scrambled egg
Kawama's Eunice, visibly shocked by how straight forward
scrambled eggs can be as Rhi strikes a finishing pose
Blackson, from Janna, gives a thumbs up of approval
Mary from Janna excited to try scrambled eggs for the first time
The catering staff from our partner schools getting ready to enjoy the results of their work
Smiles at the end of an enjoyable time together

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