Swaziland Blog

The 2 cooks who work for the Moyeni Project earn less then $100 a month each. They cook breakfast and lunch school days for some 250 students and staff. They use a ramshackle, falling-apart bamboo hut to cook over an open campfire. The meals are usually rice, beans, cornmeal, cabbage, spinach and other vegetables as available. Months go by without any meat or fish being served. the children are also served sour milk as they cannot tolerate fresh milk. They love it. They eat sitting on the ground, standing or sitting on any available log, rock or stoop. There is no cafeteria, yet. The only water source is a big plastic cistern with a single faucet, 10 meters from the kitchen. Everyone eats everything on their plate, with no complaints and no leftovers. Each child also washes their own bowl and spoon. That does not remind me of my school cafeteria in Black Earth, Wisconsin.