Mentors

Scotdesco Aboriginal Community


Mentor Projects Available
The FOODcents Programme Three Scotdesco hospitality mentors Maureen Mckenzie, Kirsty Miller and Lerline Crisci have been working with Red Cross to develop a FOODcents programme in Koonibba and Ceduna communities. The team have worked with people from the communities to show how to make yummy food using fresh ingredients and how to spice a meal up. The project has run for eight weeks and Maureen says that its been fantastic and hopes the project can continue because the community people are getting very involved and looking forward to the next session. click here for more info about Red Cross and FOODcents.....
Web Site Soraya Scott has been updating the scotdesco web site for the last 12 months. She updates the web site every week with stories from the community about the community. The web site is really valued by the community and she has found that the more she does it the more interesting it gets. By working with a mentor it has given her the confidence to update the web site independently and getting stories approved by the community before publishing. The skills required to update the web site need to be practiced regularly with support to develop confidence to use the software independently. Soraya is available to mentor other workers from other west coast communities to update their web sites regularly with stories and information about their communities.

Oak Valley Community Lunch Programme Three mentors from Scotdesco who have established such a project in their own community have travelled up weekly for three months to lead and support Oak Valley residents through the processes necessary to independently run their own community lunch service in Oak Valley. The ladies really enjoyed the time up their with the Oak valley ladies and say that the experience up there was very successful with the Oak Valley ladies getting involved in reading recipes, safe food handling, cooking, cleaning up the kitchen after themselves when cooking The Oak Valley ladies were very keen for ongoing mentoring.