Stories from the Kitchen

KOMPAS/CORNELIUS HELMY HERLAMBANG

A cook prepares food for disaster survivors on Thursday (25/10/2018) at a community kitchen run by the Solidarity of Victims of Human Rights Violations in Palu, Central Sulawesi. The community kitchen not only provides healthy meals, but has also become a hub for gathering information on the needs of disaster survivors.

Stories have emerged from soup kitchens in emergency shelters in disaster-affected regions across Central Sulawesi, not only about food but also about brotherhood and the path to healing from the trauma.

There was commotion at the soup kitchen of the office of human rights group Solidarity for Victims of Human Rights Abuses (SKP HAM) as the sun was just about to emerge from the horizon in Palu, Central Sulawesi, on Thursday (25/10/2018). Volunteers were deftly preparing various vegetables, frying tempeh and cooking 20 kilogram of rice on a wood stove.