Beyond Ourselves: 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.

http://www.kaniki.org/arise/we-need-your-help/arise