African Communities

The African Cultural Mentors Foodies Project is a great opportunity to explore working with new and emerging cultures and exploring different foods and cultural beliefs around food.

The project involves Primary Health Care sites and Community Foodies in the metropolitan Adelaide area, working with the African Communities Council.

Click here to view The African Cultural Mentors Project Fact Sheet

How will Community Foodies work with the African Communities?

Our trained Foodies are always eager to promote their good food – better health messages and following a request from the African Communities Council, Foodies were called upon to assist in promoting a range of basic nutrition concepts to newly arrived migrants and refugees.

What makes this project so special is that we have asked members of the African community to become 'Mentors' to make sure that when we do a program or session with African groups, we are addressing the right issues and concerns and making the information relevant and understandable.

At the moment the Community Foodies involved in the project, cultural mentors and site health workers are developing several nutrition modules, after consulting with the African communities about what information they would like most.

The topics are:
Food Safety and Hygiene
Recipe Modification
Modifying the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
Nutrition on a Budget
Healthy School Lunchboxes
Healthy Supermarket Tours and Traditional Food Alternatives

The next phase of the project will be to conduct some of the sessions within the African communities -- with many requests already in the pipeline!

For further information please contact:

Reagan Bledee Jnr
Project Officer, African Community Council, SA
Ph: (08) 82179531 E: reagan@accsa.com.au

Liz Sanders
Acting Manager, SA Community Foodies
Ph: (08) 8384 9266 E: Elizabeth.Sanders@health.sa.gov.au

Danielle Proud
Dietitian, Enfield Primary Health Care Services
Ph: (08) 8161 2447 E: Danielle.proud@health.sa.gov.au