Six students showed up for the first cooking class!
Cooking classes are taught by Niall, a Peace Corps Worker
Some of the students got "hands on" experience---helping to prepare the meal.
Wow! Pasta from scratch!
This week's lesson was how to make spaghetti!
Sampling the finished product is the best part!..........
One of the purposes of the Resource Center is to help the children who have "graduated" from the orphanage with Life Skills that will be useful to them. A few of the older children had expressed a desire to learn how to cook, as this was an area they struggled with upon leaving the orphanage and being on their own.
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When we were in Petropavlovsk this summer, we met with some of the Peace Corps Workers and told them about the Resource Center for the older children.
Niall suggested a "Cooking Class" and volunteered to teach it. Niall is a good cook too! (We sampled some of his cinnamon rolls.) He is also good at preparing meals on a limited budget with the resources available there. Since these children are on limited budgets too, these classes will be very helpful for them.
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We think that word will spread and even more students will be at the next "Cooking Class!" That they get to eat the finished products is a plus! Some of the students attend the University in Petropavlovsk, and others are attending other colleges or trade schools in the area. The ones that attended the first Cooking Class, really seemed to enjoy it!
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THANK YOU to Niall, Peace Corps Worker, for teaching these classes, and to Paradise Empowers, Inc., who sponsors the Resource Center to make these classes possible! We hope the Resource Center will be offering English classes soon too!
