GLOW Academy Students Help Prepare Meals for Local Community

Students from Girls Leadership Academy of Wilmington (GLOW Academy), an affiliate of our Young Women’s Leadership Network, prepared meals for the local community in the school’s culinary class.

Broadcast on WECT News 6 in Wilmington on November 17, 2023

“It’s nice to know we can help,” said Aryana B., who is a GLOW senior. “It makes me proud.”

The girls in the kitchen are helping prepare meals for more than a dozen people who used to be homeless in downtown Wilmington.

Those people are the first wave of tenants at Eden Village. The village is a tiny home community that is putting a roof over people’s heads, in some cases, for the first time in years.

The students in GLOW’s culinary class are prepping meals to be delivered. Their instructor, Chef Gwen Gulliksen, says what’s on the menu for students is a helping of empathy.

“That’s what we’re teaching here; it’s empathy,” said Gulliksen. “We’re sharing food with people who are food insecure.”