That's right. 700 plus people fed Monday to Friday - 630 school children, 45 teachers, 38 students from the School of Leadership and Discipleship, 12 RYFC staff members and us!
When RYFC realised that some/many of the children at Kigali Christian School were coming to school without having eaten anything and/or didn't bring food to school and then maybe had nothing when they went home, they decided that it was time they fed the children at school. And so now they have at least one good meal each day.
I thought you might be interested to see how they make that happen.
At 8 am the kitchen staff get busy peeling and chopping spuds and carrots.
They thought that I should help too!
The utensils they use are huge because they are cooking for a huge number of people!
This guy is scooping the potatoes into hot oil for chips (They make the BEST chips in Rwanda!! 'Not very healthy, Jane', you say, but VERY yummy!)
And this guy is stirring the vegetable sauce which will go on the rice. All of this is cooked on charcoal fires set into the concrete benches or sitting separately on the floor (chips). It gets seriously hot in that kitchen!
And when all is ready a little assembly line of helpers serves the meal into individual lunch boxes ready to take to the classroms where the children will eat their lunch.
Each classroom has its own crate for delivery and the lunch boxes are packed quite lovingly into each crate.
Then its time to add in the fresh fruit
a labelled tub for each classroom
and then off it goes to the children
The lunch monitors say grace
and then hand out the food to the students
Its a very happy occasion and they were delighted to have me there taking their photos
Well done Rwanda Youth for Christ, you're doing a fantastic job!
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