Fundacion Via Cocina is a community based project focused on improving the health and economic development of vulnerable women, youth and underprivileged in Medellin Colombia. With a personalized training and mentoring system sharing healthy food recipes, cooking techniques and applied financial planning and entrepreneurial small business fundamentals, we build a program for individuals and families based on their current reality, applying the training to objectives created with them, for them, in their own home. Additionally, we provide classes to individuals and groups who want to learn to cook healthy dishes with local ingredients for their families, transforming them into uncommon flavo... read more Fundacion Via Cocina is a community based project focused on improving the health and economic development of vulnerable women, youth and underprivileged in Medellin Colombia. With a personalized training and mentoring system sharing healthy food recipes, cooking techniques and applied financial planning and entrepreneurial small business fundamentals, we build a program for individuals and families based on their current reality, applying the training to objectives created with them, for them, in their own home. Additionally, we provide classes to individuals and groups who want to learn to cook healthy dishes with local ingredients for their families, transforming them into uncommon flavors that are low in fat, oil, salt and sugar-free. These activities look to decrease frequency and severity of non-communicable diseases in the communities, including obesity, diabetes and cholesterol.
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By Brian Johnston | Project Leader
Hola and happy new year! As 2023 ended, so did our long-time participant/colleague Daniel's contract in the restaurant he had been working in. That job wasn't providing a level of satisfaction and... Read the full report ›By Brian Johnston | Project Leader
Hola! I'm very happy to report that we've finally been able to re-initiate some of our training activities! It feels great to have so many new and familiar faces coming through the training centre as... Read the full report ›By Brian Johnston | Project Leader
This week in the Medellin news we were told that the 'El Niño' phenomenon has officially arrived until next year, which means very hot temperatures and a break from all the rain! That also... Read the full report ›
