During my time with Growing Chefs, I have been able to help out the organization in many ways. I have also learned a lot about the great work that the organization does in schools.
Growing Chefs has volunteers going to different schools in many cities. The volunteers in the schools run the 7 lessons with a class. The volunteers do a lot of fun activities with the students that teach them about growing vegetables, gaining knowledge about different vegetables, nutrition, cooking, and eating! What I have been able to do it collect the kits that each school has to run the program, and sort them and clean them to have them ready for next year.
At the beginning and end of the program the volunteers also have the students take a quiz about what they know, showing that they have learned a lot from the program. I have been putting that information into a data base. I have also been going through photos of the program and creating albums. It has been really great to see these photos and see the lessons take place.
I have been helping the organization with a lot of background work. A lot of the things I have been doing take a lot of time and because the organization is a charity there are not many employees. It amazes me however, how many well established chefs and professionals volunteer their time to this organization. I have also been happy to do whatever I can!