By Natasha Baker | Development Volunteer
Hello Global Giving community!
Today we want to share with you one of the community outreach programs that the Sustainable Culinary Arts School is doing throughout the month of July. Students of the Sustainable Culinary Arts School (most of whom are mothers and single heads of households) got to swtich roles and become teachers by teaching cooking classes to kids at the Del Paseo mall in Fortaleza, Brazil, in the same city where the school is located. The event was called "Chefinhos," or "Little Chefs." Kids from ages 2 to 12 had a blast as they learned to make pizza, sandwiches, and pasta with the loving guidance of their teachers. The event has been wildly popular, with long lines forming for kids to participate! It was also a great way for a wider audience to learn about the amazing work the school is doing.
Such community engagement, giving back, and empowerment are integral to what the Sustainable Culinary Arts School seeks to achieve by teaching low-income women how to cook. The boost in self-esteem, the connection to community, and the practical job skills will have enormous ripple effects, health-wise, family-dynamic-wise, and economics-wise.
Aliane, one of the school's students, shares what the school means to her:
The Sustainable Culinary Arts School has expanded my knowledge. It is because of this program that I am going to open my own business at home and become financially independent. Ever since I joined the school, people keep telling me, "I want to learn what you learned in your classes." I want to pay it forward. I'm going to teach my friends and relatives what I learned so they, too, can feel empowered.
Aliane lives in the Bom Jardim neighborhood of Fortaleza, one of its poorest. But her future is ever brighter because of the opportunity she has to participate in the Sustainable Culinary Arts School - an opportunity that is supported by donors like you! Your donations help break the cycle of poverty, of low self-esteem, of violence that hold communities back.
Obrigada (thank you) for believing in people like Aliane. We all deserve the opportunity to be educated, to learn job skills, and be able to provide for ourselves and our families. Having fun and building community in the process doesn't hurt either!
In solidarity,
Natasha
Mitakuye Oyasin
Îandé Memé Maranongara
Somos Todos Parentes
We Are All Related
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