{"id":6710,"date":"2024-04-25T14:14:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/?p=6710"},"modified":"2024-04-26T08:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T08:37:06","slug":"fighting-against-malnutrition-ct-food-and-nutrition-cooking-demonstrations-promote-healthy-cooking-in-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/fighting-against-malnutrition-ct-food-and-nutrition-cooking-demonstrations-promote-healthy-cooking-in-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFIGHTING AGAINST MALNUTRITION: CT FOOD AND NUTRITION COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS PROMOTE HEALTHY COOKING IN COMMUNITIES\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Malawi, access to information about nutrition is limited and the Karonga Diocese is one of the organizations on the forefront seeking to end this through its Community Transformation (CT) Project which has food and nutrition as one of its components. In this spirit, Karonga Diocese CT (Food and Nutrition) conducted cooking demonstrations in the areas of Jalawe, Chankholombe and Kopakopa which were meant to impart knowledge to its beneficiaries about the 6 groups of foods and how to cook different foods that are nutritious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Asimenye Fumbo from Kopakopa Village cooking a meal during the demonstrations.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The cooking demonstrations were conducted by Karonga Diocese CT(Food and Nutrition) Coordinator Grace Kondowe and the training’s began with a simple Question and Answer session to refresh the participants on the 6 healthy food groups and food preservation methods. Thereafter the participants were taught recipes that they can cook with locally sourced materials and conducted practical cooking exercises under the supervision of the CT-Food and Nutrition Coordinator and volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the dishes prepared during the cooking demonstrations.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe main purpose of the training is to equip the beneficiaries with skills on how they can diversify meals and foods using locally available six food groups and how to preserve food materials that they may be available even when such foods are not in season. We encourage the people to use locally available food materials that are grown and found in the village to create the meals,\u201d said Grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the women cooking during the demonstration.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

CT Food and Nutrition is part of the Community Transformation Project which is being implemented by the Karonga Diocese with assistance from Cross Catholic Outreach in the areas of Village Heads Jalawe, Chankholombe and Kopakopa. The materials used during the cooking demonstrations were sourced by the beneficiaries in their respective areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Locally sourced food materials.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mercy Chisiza from Jalawe during the cooking demonstrations.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Gender equity at play,” a male beneficiary Blessings Mkandawire<\/em> participating in the demonstrations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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CT-Food and Nutrition Coordinator Grace Kondowe (Standing in a Pink Blouse) in Chankholombe during a Q&A session.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Locally sourced food materials.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Locally sourced food materials.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Scones made from sweet potatoes during the cooking demonstrations.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Women Volunteers from Kopakopa posing with their final products<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Malawi, access to information about nutrition is limited and the Karonga Diocese is one of the organizations on the forefront seeking to end this through its Community Transformation (CT) Project which has food and nutrition as one of its components. In this spirit, Karonga Diocese CT (Food and Nutrition) conducted cooking demonstrations in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":44,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[220,222,131],"class_list":["post-6710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-community-transformation","tag-food-and-nutrition","tag-karonga-diocese"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6755,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions\/6755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}