Lunch at School

Sorgham cooking

Thanks to the World Food Program, World Vision and some great Mother's at the school a hot lunch of sorghum and beans is served everyday at school.

The World Food Program (WFP, which the kids tell me stands for "We Feed People") provides the raw materials. They use World Vision to distribute it to those eligible. The schools have to meet certain qualifications (such as having a  separate kitchen with a roof) and have to submit reports indicating the dates they served the food and how many children and adults were fed.

Beans cooking

We have been told that there is much abuse of the program at many schools with the students are not getting the food.

The mothers come at 8:30 a.m. to begin making lunch and they are there until about 3 p.m. cleaning up.

They cook the beans in one pot and the sorghum in another pot over 2 open fires. Then they are stirred together and served to the students.





Everyone loves getting their picture taken here. I was happy to take these ladies' pictures. They always want to see it as soon as you take it. They always smile. I know they were laughing at me when I took a picture of their pots cooking over the fire.

The women are never idle.

When they put the pots away after lunch they are spotless. They cut up the nylon bags that the food comes in to make scrubbing cloths.

The women work hard here, often supporting many children without any help. Many of them sell ground nuts and peanut paste.While waiting for the beans to cook they shell peanuts.

The students each wash their own dishes in this wheelbarrow,  rinse them in another pot and lay them out to air dry.

The students each bring a piece of firewood a couple times a week to fuel the cooking fires.

Water is collected by the students 3 times a day
from a well nearby used for drinking and washing

Dishwashing

Mixing the sorghum and beans together

Clean dishes and utensils