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The Culinary School students are blooming and have what it takes to change culinary history in El Salvador.
Thanks to the support of all donors, we are able to take culinary arts in El Salvador to a different level through students that needed this one chance to change their lifes and their families.
Every time more students are joining restaurants, hotels, coffee shops and food production industries, they are raising the bar onto how other employees are measured, the perfect cooking time of our students is showing great results.
The growing of the program makes us dream with brighter futures for more people, we are attempting to graduate 100 or more students per year and this can only be possible thanks to all the donors getting involved.
We have incorporated monthly exams, pshycological support, scholarship document signing and close follow up to each students in order to guarantee the success of all participantes.
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See article below from People Helping People’s newsletter
(People Helping People is the US sister charity to Gente Ayudando Gente, the organization Airline Ambassadors works with in El Salvador
Culinary school sets table for new economic opportunities in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — When The People Helping People Network launched a culinary school program a few years ago as a unique addition to its education and economic advancement opportunities, no one imagined just how transformative the program would become.
“Some of the people in our housing program were looking for new job opportunities and new job skills to improve their income for their family,” PHP founder Jeff Cardwell said. “We thought it could be a good opportunity, but it has exceeded all of our expectations. There’s no way I would have ever imagined this.”
The program is hardly just a way for people to brush up on some cooking skills. It trains people for careers in the culinary industry. And it must train them quite well because it has a 95 percent job placement rate for its graduates.
Of course, you can’t have great students without a great teacher, and that is one of the blessings that helped catapult the school from a cool idea to a thriving program that changes lives. José Rodriguez is the master chef who commands attention with a reserved but demanding demeanor in the class kitchen at People Helping People’s headquarters in San Salvador.
“He’s one of the top chefs in El Salvador,” Cardwell said. “We originally started out working with him hoping he would just help us build a curriculum and help us get things up and started and maybe train a team to get going. But he’s enjoyed it so much, he continues to lead the program, and he loves teaching these students.
“He loves what we’re doing, and he’s got a passion for teaching people to be chefs and help people to get employment,” he added. “We’re very blessed to have him.”
Visiting the culinary school during The People Helping People Network’s Vision Trips to El Salvador has become one of the highlights of the whirlwind, days-long tour of HOPE Equation (Housing + Hunger Relief + Healthcare + Education x Faith = HOPE) success stories. The most recent visit this past December was no exception, and many of the trip participants enjoyed the opportunity to have a little fun decorating holiday cookies alongside students. Chef Rodriguez went easy on the visitors.
More memorable than decorating cookies, though, were the conversations they had with students as they heard directly about their gratitude and their determination to succeed.
“Both of the young men I talked to now have the dream of owning their own restaurant,.” Phil Watkins said. “I thought that was fantastic.”
