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Orisa Lifestyle Activities: Week 17
Medicinal Foods: Yoruba people generally believe that when they introduce these materials to the child at the beginning of his life, he will make positive use and not negative use of them when he becomes an adult.
Please complete the following:
MATERIALS
Ceremonial foods and items
INSTRUCTIONS: With your coordinator team...
KNOW: What is the name of your local landfill? Where is it located? Is it the first landfill in your community? How much trash is dumped there everyday? What material is most prominent in the local landfill? When will it be filled?
COMMIT: Think of 3-5 ways you can reduce the amount of trash that is deposited at the landfill? What would it require for your households to become ZERO waste?
PRACTICE: Select one way in which you can reduce, reuse, recycle and compost one product 100% of the time.
MATERIALS
Ceremonial foods and items
- Water: As water is very important to people, so must the child be important to his family.
- Salt: Salt is important to any food for its palatability. So must the child be to his community. When any person is said to be as salt to his people, it means he brings joy, happiness, and even sweetness where there is bitterness.
- Palm Oil: African palm oil is used for a series of medicinal purposes, both positive and negative. This is used for naming the child so that when he grows up, he will make a positive use and not a disuse of it.
- Cola nut: Some colanuts have two carpsels, some three, some four some five, and some six which is the highest number of carpsels they can have. Usually we use the one with four carpsels. It is the one with four carpsels that are most usable. They are used for both good and bad medicines. By introducing them to the child, we pray for the child not to use it negatively against anybody neither will anybody use it negatively against him.
- Bitter cola: This has the same reason as the colanut above.
- Alligator pepper: This also has the same reason and significance of the two above.
Honey: For the child to be as sweet as honey to his community and most importantly for him not to be ostracized by his people when he grows to adulthood. - Wine: Wine brings happiness to people so also shall the child bring happiness to his community at all times
INSTRUCTIONS: With your coordinator team...
- Select a location
- Create a zero waste plan
- Create a loose agenda for the picnic (i.e., schedule of events, including set up and clean up)
- Determine who is bringing what (i.e., healthy foods, snacks, drinks, blankets, first aid, etc.)
- Determine who will be in charge of each activity (remember to take pictures/videos and SHARE them with the families)
- HAVE FUN!
KNOW: What is the name of your local landfill? Where is it located? Is it the first landfill in your community? How much trash is dumped there everyday? What material is most prominent in the local landfill? When will it be filled?
COMMIT: Think of 3-5 ways you can reduce the amount of trash that is deposited at the landfill? What would it require for your households to become ZERO waste?
PRACTICE: Select one way in which you can reduce, reuse, recycle and compost one product 100% of the time.
