Growing and cooking at home!

Thanks to Robert, Donacien has planted many vegetables and even sunflowers on his small piece of land in Kigali. He lives alone with his teenage son, who he is trying to encourage to eat more vegetables. Donacien loves to cook, and thus loves to participate in the Gardens for Health cooking demonstrations and nutrition classes. In the last class, Donacien suggested a new recipe to try using a new vegetable from their home gardens–beets. He mixed matooke (starchy bananas, a popular staple food in Rwanda) with beets and beet greens to create a new colorful dish–pictured here. He recently began antiretroviral treatment, and recognizes that his efforts to grow, cook and eat good food as integral to his treatment success.