| Ya-fen Wu, the Director of Meals Affairs Division |
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| Origin |
A director of the General Affairs Division of an association
certainly should have something to do with purchasing and repairing. To
the children, Ms. Ya-fan Wu is a very interesting person. She treats
repair as an interesting job, and blends education into it. She also
prepares rich and delicious meals for the children. How can Ms. Wu turn
the foul and rotten into rare and ethereal under such limited
expenditure? Let us take a look at the following interviews. |
| Interview |
| 1.What are the job contents of the Director of the Meals Affairs Division? How long have you been at this job? How did you come here to work? |
I usually tell the children they need to think what they really want to
eat, and what they hate to eat the most. If I can make them eat up the
food they hate the most, and remove all garbage food, then we will not
waste food. I have been in this job for 10 years. It was a part-time
job, and became a full-time job from the 6th year. |
| 2.Has any emergency happened in your current job? How did you resolve it? |
Yes. Some children poured in the leftover too fast once, and
spilled the leftover all over the ground, so I slipped down to the
ground. When I am too busy, I will ask a helper to assist me, but the
different food taste cannot be avoided. |
| 3.To our school, the Director of the General Affairs Division is responsible for schoolhouse engineering, purchase request, purchase, and repair. To CCNDA, are these all your responsibilities? Which one do you do the most? |
To CCNDA, these are all my responsibilities. I do repairing and
purchasing the most, since there are many children here, and they often
break glass. If they did not want to admit the mistakes, I would review
the hidden camera record to see who did it. I want them to be
responsible for themselves. Everyone makes mistake, but they need to
admit it. I want them to understand that all materials in CCNDA are
blessings, so they cannot waste any of these randomly. |
| 4.Is there any standard for implementing the jobs such as engineering, purchase request, purchase and repair? For example, how much money can be used freely? And how much money needs to be discussed before use? |
We need to consider the duration of materials if we need to purchase a
big amount of them. If a material can be used for relatively long time,
then we need to consider its practicability. In this case, we need to
discuss with our supervisor. |
| 5.Is your department or Accountant of CCNDA responsible for paying the purchase? How do you work with your Accounting Department? |
It is the accountant. We need the receipt for anything we purchase, so
we must find some legal suppliers who provide receipts. We then use the
receipts to request payout from the Accountant. That is why we only
purchase materials from a store providing receipts. |
| 6.You are also responsible for the meals of CCNDA. Could you tell us how you can prepare the rich meals? |
Here we provide two vegetables, one meat dish, and one soup. We also
provide juice or fruit in the summer time, but only hot soup in the
winter. |
| 7.How much is budgeted for each person? And how do you control the budget of each meal? |
We totally have 40 persons including children and volunteer teachers
here, and the budget is under NT$1,200. Before the typhoon, our budget
was about NT$700-800, so it was about NT$25 per person. |
| 8.What is the most difficult or the easiest work for the job of the Director of the Meals Fairs Division? |
The most difficult part is how to turn the food you guys hate the most
to be the food you like the most. This is a very big challenge to me.
The easiest job is cooking with the children, and this is the happiest
job to me. |
| 9.You are the logistic support of CCNDA. With your assistance, CCNDA can operate smoothly. What are your current job contents? And what suggestion would you like to give CCNDA? |
We do not have sufficient manpower, so I am responsible for purchase,
cooking, making snack, and tutoring the students who do not finish
their homework. There is lots of work, so we have insufficient manpower
issue. We hope that some people with the same interests can come to
join us, and become our members. |
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| (Source of photos: Shot by the Community Care Team) |
| Conclusion |
Ms. Wu is really a very interesting elder. She invited us to her
kitchen to visit her working environment. She also told us a story of
cleaning fish and made us feel amazing. Under the requirement of no
waste on food, children learn not to be dietary bias, and to cherish
all materials. We should all learn the spirit of cherishing materials. |
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