Cooking Up Hope
Hope International’s second, on-site vocational program, Cooking Up Hope, was established in 2021. Students and community members are being trained in traditional and modern cooking methods, baking and cake decoration, catering, and food service in the hospitality industry.
Graduates from the program are using their skills to earn an income through their own businesses or employment in the hospitality industry. Please meet two of these graduates.
Christine Barjolo
Christine is a graduate of both Hope International School and Cooking Up Hope. She shared with us how the skills she acquired through the culinary vocational program were impacting her life. “The skills are empowering me with the money I earn to take care of myself and my family. I am dreaming of opening my own restaurant when I have the resources in the near future.”
Rebecca Doe
Rebecca is using her skills to work for herself as a caterer for people in the community. She told us, “what I learned through Cooking Up Hope has improved me a lot. It made me advanced in baking, so now I am able to bake for people and use the money to help myself, my children, and my family.”
Cooking Up Hope Graduate Statistics
