At the moment we still don’t have a proper kitchen.

Our wonderful cooks, Laily (she has only one leg) and Fatima (terrible burns on her arms and breasts) are fantastic managing to cook for so many people (60) in two different places.

One, semi-open, outside the main building where they cook on an open fire that produces terrible suffocating black smoke. The other place is a small room inside the building where now we have a cooking range with two gas burners but no oven, a small basin to which we have added some shelves with two very colourful drainers. No more drying of plates on newspapers on the floor!

We have also bought a small cabinet to store plates, cups and cutlery, but we hope to have more cupboard space in the new kitchen, we will build all the shelves and cupboards in our workshop. It is all very poor and inadequate, not safe and healthy. We are planning to build a big proper kitchen where we will use only gas for cooking; at the beginning using gas cylinders until the local authority connects us to the local natural gas supply which they have been promising for a long time!

The new kitchen will be 4m x 8m, it will have two sinks, one very big to wash the very big pots needed for 100 people above all during the raining season (no more wet and shivering children!). It will cost around € 5500, CHF 7000, our students will build all the cupboards, cabinets and shelves and will have a lot of fun painting them.