PREPARING PORRIDGE FOR THE ISC PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

Two volunteers are preparing porridge for the children before they go home from preschool. The porridge is prepared from mielie meal (maize flour). It is made to a thinner consistancy than the maize flour used to make nshima (the staple food eaten at most main meals). Cooking in big kettles with wood or charcoal is the most common way of preparing meals in Zambia. When the women needed to reduce the heat they just removed some of the wood.