Charity, Kindness & Food: Talking With Courageous Kitchen's Dwight Turner [Season 3, Episode 56]

Greg interviews Dwight Turner, the founder of Courageous
Kitchen, a nonprofit organization that centers on food and
nutrition education for at-risk youth and families in
Bangkok.


Dwight recounts the start of the organization and how it
sprang from a simple desire to find something more meaningful in
his life after the traveling and partying were done. Over time,
the organization evolved into a program that teaches young people
how and what to cook. Seems easy, but for those at risk - such as
Bangkok's refugeee communities - mastering kitchen skills open up
all kinds of doors in empowerment and confidence building.


To make practical use of potentially dangerous things such
as knives and gas stoves and to plan and prepare a meal with a
team of peers instills a sense of responsibility and leadership
in the children who have gone through the program. When all is
said and done, cooking is harder and scarier for kids than you
might realize at first.


Along the way, Courageous Kitchen passes on nutrition
information that the students can then disseminate either
formally or informally in their communities, inspires
entrepreneurism, and provides English lessons to help the kids
function in an international community.


Dwight also relates some of the success stories of young
people and families that have gone through his program, some of
whom who have gone on to successful education and careers in the
U.S.


Last, Dwight gives advice on how anyone can help out,
either through donations or through volunteering.


For more info, watch these short YouTube videos profiling
Courageous Kitchen here,
here, and
here.


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