It's youth week, and today Youth For The Future invited over six secondary schools to participate in a cooking competition. Sounds like a free lunch to us, but the organizer said it's about teaching the kids the merits of productive teamwork:..
Katherine Guzman, Youth Empowerment Coordinator
"It's a cooking competition; they have a 3 course meal and a drink that they have to prepare."
Jules Vasquez
"What is the redeeming idea you are trying to teach these kids?"
Katherine Guzman
"Teamwork basically, these children will be judge by 8 criteria. We have 3 lovely judges and we have 6 schools that are going to participate in this event. Most of the schools have a hospitality class that's participating. Most of them have food and nutrition class that they take on a regular basis."
"Like how we have 4 categories, we are going to give away 4 prizes in those prizes in those categories; the prizes are a stove for the first prize and gifts baskets for the second prize."
That was around noon, and up top late in the afternoon, they were still cooking.
