THE Johanna Cecilia Learning Resource Centre of Region Two, Essequibo Coast, will commence its first cookery classes for 2012 on January 21. According to the training centre’s Chairman, Mr Doodnauth Singh, the class will last for six weeks, and students, who will be drawn from across the Essequibo Coast, will be trained in preparing and cooking various Indian sweetmeats and snacks.
Mr. Singh said the centre has trained scores of mainly single-parent women to cook and prepare Indian sweetmeats, pastry, Indian and vegetarian dishes, various rice dishes, vegetarian cakes, and cake decoration over the past four years.
Coordinator and teacher of the centre, Mrs Parbittie Singh, said classes are held every Saturday, and at the end of the course, participants are required to prepare and cook the different types of food they were taught to prepare, and to put it on display. Successful students who attend at least five of the six sessions are awarded with certificates.
The training has so far helped beneficiaries to set up their own food businesses and create employment for themselves.