FEMALE canteen and active member of the Solomon Islands Women in Business Association (SIWIBA), Theresa Solodia has thanked the organisers of the recent Food Safety and Hygiene Training Workshop.
She commended the strong partnership between Solomon Islands Women in Business Association and Honiara City Council in organising the three days Food Safety and Hygiene training workshop.
The workshop was held at the SIWIBA conference room in Honiara.
According to Theresa, she has learned a lot of many constructive and safety ideas that will strengthen her future business plan.
“As a mother and a house wife, am fortunate to have received this certificate on food safety and hygiene. For sure the knowledge gained from the workshop will definitely help me with my future plans.
“This training has indeed helped me to improve my knowledge, skills and techniques in home management and more especially on the importance of food safety and hygiene within my own home,” she said.
The main objective of the workshop is to share and exchange constructive ideas with women vendors [those who specialised in sell cooked food] on how to prepare safe and hygienic foods for healthy human consumption within the food outlets in the City boundary of Honiara.
Theresa also believed that similar trainings should be carried out in other urban settings in the country so that other women vendors could be knowledgeable about the importance of food safety and hygiene.
“There are also majority of women vendors out there, who have engaged themselves through the selling of cooked foods and I strongly believe that they should be trained on how to prepare safe food for public or human consumption.
“Therefore, I would like to encourage women vendors, who have gone through such trainings to practically use their knowledge and skills in their own settings,” she told Solomon Women.
Honiara City is currently common with women food vendors that provide inexpensive and tasty food for public consumption. Clearly, consumption of food in the public is a new trend, the local food vendors from City and outskirt communities of Honiara normally sold food from their roadside and street pavement stalls.
Theresa is the owner of SCAPEG canteen, which is located at the Honiara High school Street. Her business also provides photocopy services to the public.
“My canteen also provides a photocopy service but I also have other plans which I hope to achieve in the future,” she added.
Honiara City is currently common with women food vendors that provide inexpensive and tasty food for public consumption.
