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Feeding the five thousand |
| Posted by Malcolm Egner (mjegner) on Nov 11 2007 at 7:32 PM |
Three times a week in Visayas Ave they feed about 120 children. The food is cooked in a kitchen down the road on two gas rings. They do an enormous pot of rice, the staple food here; along with that they make a big pot with usually chicken or pork, and water and then vegetables and then lots of seasoning and flavourings so it becomes more of a soup texture to put on the rice.
So I helped Nila and Rudolfo chop up the vegetables, beans about two foot long, and a green vegetable, sometimes there's carrots. The meat is put on to cook first and then gradually add in the vegetables. It is worked on a very precise timescale as they do this so regularly.
When it's all ready, the stew soup is put into two pots so it doesn't spill on route. As the van wasn't available we hailed a tricycle loaded in the pots on the sidecar floor, with Rudolfo perched on the seat with them and Nila and I sitting side saddle to take the food up the road, where everything was set up ready to feed all the children. A big spoon of rice with a spoon of soup stew (only one piece of meat and a couple of bits of vegetables each). This feeding programme gives the children three meals a week but still gives the parents a responsibilty to feed them the rest of the time.
The children really enjoy their food and so enduring the heat while preparing it was all worthwhile when I saw them enjoying it so much!
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