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Bank on It: A Food Bank BlogCookShop Volunteers Get Chopping!by Brian Pham This January and February, the Food Bank held volunteer trainings for CookShop, our series of nutrition and health education programs for adults as well as elementary and high school students. We were able to successfully train more than 200 volunteers in three trainings – and that’s almost four times the number of volunteers we had last year! After being trained, these volunteers will be placed in one of two programs, CookShop Classroom or CookShop For Adults.
Some of the things the volunteers learned in the training were proper knife skills, how to engage 5-7 year olds in nutrition education, how certain plants grow, how to purchase nutritious food on a sustainable income and even a surprisingly delicious recipe involving celery, carrots, orange juice and mustard!
By mid-February, our new CookShop volunteers will be helping teach low-income adults and children about nutrition and healthy living across all five boroughs.
By doing so, these volunteers are helping the Food Bank achieve a key element of ending food poverty – increasing the health of our city. New York City's low-income neighborhoods suffer from a high incidence of diet-related diseases such as diabetes, obesity and hypertension – and CookShop is on the frontline of the Food Bank’s efforts to change this reality.
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