Aldea Maya has partnered with the Chuk Muk Preschool to offer nutrition and cooking classes to the moms or grandmoms.
The moms will be taking a classes every month for 4 months. In these classes they will watch informative nutrition movies in their native Tzu’tujil. They will learn how to feed an infant and small child highly nutritious, inexpensive meals. They will learn about combining items to make complete protein. They will learn about vitamins and minerals and why they are needed.
The moms often cannot read or write so they will receive an infant cookbook which shows how to make the recipes using pictures.
The women love cooking together and sitting down to a communal meal. We love it when they bring along their children as the moms get to see first hand how the children love the new foods.
We have found through experience that it takes a minimum of 4 classes to change how a person looks at food.
