Charity Chefs
Charity Chefs is a network of cooks who have love and passion for making food, and at the same time using their skills for a good cause.
The Charity Chefs Network connects both professional chefs from various restaurants and talented autonomous cooks from the FNOI association and other organizations.
Events
A series of events labeled “Internasjonalt Mateventyr” launches September 14th 2023. The title entails an international food fairy tale.
The concept is a monthly arrangement where guests are invited to explore food from different countries, in 3 different kitchens.
The evening takes place at Kommunegården in Sandvika from 18:00 - 22:00 once a month.
We tailor other events for customers, and hold courses, conferences and theme arrangements.
And again, all income goes to charity.
Foodtruck
We have a foodtruck, for disposal at festivals, food fairs and markets, and any other places the truck can be placed for selling foods.
The foodtruck promotes the project and its partners, the events and the Charity Chefs Network
Our Foodtruck is currently set up as a professional pizza wagon, but this be changed. Our partner FNOI also has access to other foodtrucks, and we will expand later. We will have permanent spots, and a foodtruck with free mobility to be moved to other events.
Social Responsibility Programme
When a chef becomes part of the Charity Chefs Programme, there are a range of benefits for all parts.
First and foremost the cooperation enables the participants to be able to contribute through their capabilities, to generate funding valuable for the livelihoods and wellbeing of the local community in Uganda. Greater Africa Foundation provides the complete setup for making sure the contributions in its entirety are transferred in a secure manner, in accordance with the ethically correct standards and regulations.
Restaurants or other food companies the participant works for can get a tailored CSR-programme, where we deliver text material and images for the company's website, and they also get mention with a logo on the project partners' websites. The companies can also have posters hung up at their premises, flyers about Charity Chefs, and maybe an apron with our logo or other promotional material.
We might also offer to have a short text with a QR-code on their manu and/or tablecard, and possibly a collection jar for their counter/reception.
They might also get material that they can bring when they represent themselves or their business at food fairs, markets, conventions or elsewhere.
Background
The FNOI association is a group of immigration women in Norway who are skilled with cooking. They learn language and get certification for their profession, and there are initiatives for assisting them for getting employment.
July 2023 Robina Taj Chaudhry of FNOI have established a collaboration project to start selling food where the income goes to the Greater Africa Foundation.
After several meetings the concepts started to form and develop. July 17th we came up with the idea of presenting three different countries every month, since we have access to three kitchens at the same facilities. And the next day Mikael of Greater Africa came up with the concept sketch of the Charity Chefs Network.