Food

Last week we started distributing food at the school.

It took a few days to get organized and is still far from being my favorite part of the day despite loving the idea of giving food to kids that many times go hungry.

It took us some time to find cooks that the village committee approves of. Then there was a long meeting about what they are entitled / not entitled to as part of the job and what is expected of them (yes: eat the food, wash the pots. No: give food to relatives, wash all the plates of the kids). The cooks requested and we agreed to collect extra money from the kids of the school so that we can improve and diverse the menu a bit. We ask the kids to bring the equivalent of 10 cents a day. From the entire school we are able to collect about 20 US dollars each day (about half of the kids bring money each day). This money is used to make a sauce or some cooked vegetables. We get about 1 spoon per kid. The entire process of collecting money, fighting with the cooks, making sure everything is done and distributing the food (while making sure the majority of it ends up at the school and not for the cooks) is quite time and energy consuming. Still – we are getting better at this and I hope it will be a routine soon. For now: some pictures from the first day of food distribution at the school.

Petite Section of Kindergarten

On the first day we tried giving the food outside.
Afterwards we started distributing inside the classes.