View a Presentation about Cowichan Community Kitchens.
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Core Functions
- Operate 20 community kitchens
- Provide people with the tools to realize self-reliant food security
- Educate members to make smart choices, in planning, budgeting, shopping cooking and cleaning in relation to food.
- Providing an environment for personal development
- Provide transferable employment skills
- Build community relationships
- Strategic planning to meet community needs around food security
- Develop response to community needs
- Empower people with life skills to feed their family
- Promote and encourage literacy
- Promote interpersonal social skills
- Teach leadership and employment skills
- Educate the general public
- Resource Development
- Provide transportation for clients returning home with meals
- Give back to the community through "providing a meal to a community member outside the kitchen and "Thank You" teas.
- Advocate for clients
- Consulting for other communities and organizations
Objectives
- Ensure self-reliant food security
- Community cohesiveness and cooperation around food security
- Personal Growth among participants
Goals
- To advocate for clients
- To provide infrastructure and resources to clients to ensure self-reliant food security
- To accomplish self reliance and independence among clients and families
- That children receive proper nutrition to better be able to be educated and participate in activities and learn the skills for future employment and community responsibility.
- To provide an environment for personal growth and social development.
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