Not fewer than 20 persons at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Kuchigoro and Games village camps in Bauchi have been trained and impacted free culinary skills and offered start-up business packs to start small businesses.
The programme was undertaken by a Humanitarian organization based in Abuja, Bimbola Nutrition and Health Foundation (BNHF) as part of its advocacy training in people for healthy food and curbing the risk of malnutrition and non-communicable diseases among the less-privileged and vulnerable population of the society.
The 3-day free culinary training involved skill acquisition training, nutrition education and empowerment programme of 11 teenagers and 9 women beneficiaries who were also given some start-up equipment and tokens at the end of the program to enable them start small business in catering services.
Speaking to newsmen at the end of the programme, Abimbola Ogunlusi, Founder of Bimbola Nutrition and Health Foundation noted that malnutrition and non-communicable diseases are associated with poor nutrition, unhealthy lifestyles, environmental enteropathy, and unhygienic food production and service.
She added that it is in view of this that the trainees were taught the best cooking processes, food safety and hygiene practices as well as adequate nutrition for health.
Abimbola Ogunlusi who stressed the importance of the training, said that the training highlighted lifestyles that may cause diseases, noted that the target population comprised teenagers and women who serve as caregivers to little children.
As well as those who can transfer the knowledge to them by being adequately informed on healthy food intake and cooking methods, thus helping to reduce malnutrition in children under 5 years of age.
Some of the start-up equipment given to the participants include; oven, cooking gas, stove, cylinder, pots, baking items, chopping boards and other cooking utensils.
While speaking, some of the beneficiaries expressed their gratitude for the knowledge they gained as well as the empowerment with start-up equipment that will go a long way in making them self-reliant.
An advocate for the less privileged and vulnerable groups in society, the BNHF is an organization that works with evidence-based nutrition to provide training in healthy food and health services to populations at risk of malnutrition and non-communicable diseases.
It aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) 1, 2, 3, and 17 on no poverty, zero hunger, ensuring healthy lives and wellness as well as encouraging partnerships and collaboration to achieve success.
Some of the benefits associated with the 3-day training program included, Skill acquisition for self-development; human capacity development for economic growth; food and nutrition security.
Others are disease-free life from diet-related foods, creating wider campaigns for awareness on the importance of adequate nutrition and food varieties to prevent malnutrition and encouraging healthy lifestyle.
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