Registered Dietitian Nutritionist || Trauma-Informed Nutrition Educator & Kitchen Coach ► Connecting through nutrient-dense foods, Empowering communities to heal from within.
As a current board member of Kids Cooking For Life, I am reaching out to friends, colleagues and family alike to invite you to personally join me on Dec 4th, or support this mission to spread cooking classes for children. My parents divorced when I was 6, and while my dad taught me how to make rice in a rice cooker, I really wished someone could have taught me how to cook. It wasn't until I became an adult, did I learn how to cook. My career has evolved to be an instructor for kids' cooking classes and mentoring other instructors to teach cooking classes in the San Francisco Bay Area. As an instructor in communities like the Tenderloin, Bayview and Mission neighborhoods, I see first-hand what your donations can provide: purchasing healthy ingredients, cooking instruments and the 10 weeks I spend guiding them as they develop new lifelong skills. Will you help me continue to help communities heal from within by supporting Kids Cooking for Life and donating or coming to our Friendraiser? Your donations help fund cooking classes to those who need it the most. From KCL: "Hello, Friends, You are warmly invited to Kids Cooking For Life Friendraiser on December 4 at 5:30 - 7:30p (319 Miller Ave, Mill Valley CA)! I also want to share with you what’s cookin' at Kids Cooking For Life. Did you know that the California Department of Education does not require teachers to teach nutrition and when they do, it’s a barely a couple of hours through some hand outs and worksheets? We all know that is not the best way to learn about healthy eating. With schools already stretched thin and budgets for life skills programs continually shrinking, schools, administrators, teachers, parents, kids and our community RELY on organizations like Kids Cooking for Life to deliver this life-skill education. No wonder we have a long waitlist for our program. Thanks to donors like you, our classes are FREE to the children. Because no child should pay to learn life skills. The ability to cook simple, nutritious meals can reduce dependence on processed foods and give kids the confidence to prepare simple meals that nourish both body and mind. Eating healthy shouldn’t be so difficult! By offering our classes free of charge to schools that cannot afford them, we ensure that children from all backgrounds have the opportunity to learn these skills. Your investment in the our young chefs ensures that they have the opportunity to benefit from a lifetime of healthy eating. Pls join our Friendraiser on December 4. If you unable to attend but would like to support us, please consider making a donation on https://lnkd.in/gNBipXyk or through Venmo (QR code in invitation below). Together, we can continue to empower young people, one healthy meal at a time."
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1wThis is amazing. Way to go