"Operation: Nova Cozinha"
{New Kitchen}
The parish has two dormitories, male and female, which are used almost every weekend for gatherings of one kind or another. They are used to give a bed for a night or two to the "Knights" of the road. Last week with the roads and bridges out we opened up the dormitories to parishioners stranded in the Town while they were waiting for the water levels to drop.
The eating area outside the Kitchen and the Women's Dormitory on the right.
This area is to be tiled.
Travel is long and expensive here, so when we have a Parish Assembly or Training weekend or a Baptismal Course or a Youth Gathering, the participants from the communities outside the town stay over {Free of charge of course}.
So with people staying over we also provide food.
Food Storage at present ~ more like an ant hill if you ask me by the number of occupants!
An amusing side note:
Where do we get the food?
Last week the collection at one of the Masses came to just a little over ONE Euro, two bags of rice, a mineral bottle full of dried beans and four homemade yard brushes. So the rice and beans will be used to feed our guests, and maybe afterwards they can help sweep the floor with our new yard brushes???
Kitchen View
The wooden walls and earthen floor don't lend themselves to cleanliness.
That brings me neatly to the first project I can help with since arriving in the parish. The Kitchen at the dormitories needs to be upgraded to a suitable hygienic state. The wooden walls are to be demolished and brick walls built in their place. Then the floor and walls are to be tiled for easy cleaning. Proper windows, doors and storage facilities installed.
And the eating area outside is to be tiled.
Kitchen View
In the climate here wood takes a real battering from weather and insects, that's why the women who use the facilities want tiles, especially for ease of cleaning.
Thanks in advance to our Sponsor in Ireland
Namely: Fyffes
