YEAH! Mission The Gambia 2024

In April, David Mulcahy, Sodexo's Food Development & Innovation Director in the UK, traveled to the Gambia with a mission to better understand the challenges the local school cooks were facing. This was step one of a collaborative effort between Sodexo chefs, the World Food Programme (WFP), and Stop Hunger to bring extra culinary training and qualifications to the local school cooks. 

During his week-long mission, David visited four schools in the country, meeting children, schoolmasters, Food Management Committees, WFP teams, and cooks.

Following this visit, he worked alongside a team of chefs and WFP representatives to develop a three-tier training program, selecting the most relevant content to support the cooks. This program was later tested in November in Senegal.