Community Kitchen Student Comments

We recently received a letter from one of our Community Kitchen students and her comments really tell the story of the challenges many of our students experience. Her letter reads in part - “My dream prior to coming to Community Kitchen was just to find a job and get out of Central Arizona Shelter Services (CASS). When I enrolled in this program I thought it would just be about cooking. I thought I’ll attend class for four months and get a job. Since I have been a student here, I have learned a lot more than cooking skills - I’ve learned life skills, budgeting skills, house to buy a house, how to build a resume, about healthy and unhealthy relationships, about myself and others, how to work and clean equipment in the kitchen, about micro-organisms, toxins, illnesses from food, and so much more. The staff here are great and they are my extended family. The only friends I have in Phoenix. I would have never thought in a million years I would be living in Arizona attending a culinary arts school and doing pretty good, if I may say so. Me, a girl who never liked school, didn’t finish high school, and more. I’m on my way to greater things for my life.” Comments like this are what keep us passionate about this program on a day-in, day-out basis.

With the Community Kitchen Program, we truly do change lives!