Talent Chef: not just another cafe
Talent Chef is a cafe that combines business with welfare. The organisation, which is a venture of KK Foundation, started with the motto to empower people who have been excluded from work opportunities for various reasons such as learning disabilities, homelessness, substance abuse, and social exclusion for various reasons. The purpose of this organisation is to develop entrepreneurs, create job opportunities through diverse economic activities and enhance the capacity development of the interested disadvantaged community to turn them into efficient human resources. They are provided bakery training under the supervision of a professional chef. The products are marketed through offline and online channels.
Each and every purchase from Talent Chef can be considered charity as 100% of the profits go towards the country’s underprivileged. As such, Talent Chef provided a number of the country’s top companies with Ramadan and Eid corporate gift packs based on their budget and preferences. The available gift packs, ‘Box of Joy’, ‘Sharing Happiness’ and ‘Box of Happiness’, and different companies ordered them as part of their CSR activities. The companies are UCB Investment Limited, X Index Companies, EduRev Limited., Carebro Limited, Premier School Dhaka, and X-Ceramics Group, among others.
Tanzim Alamgir, the CEO of UCB Investment Limited, recently shared his positive experience with Talent Chef, an NGO that provides healthy and fresh food while also empowering underprivileged individuals. Tanzim chose Talent Chef because of its noble mission to empower disadvantaged people. He was impressed with their efforts to provide income-generating options for underprivileged people and found their initiative to be amazing. Md Mamunur Rashid FCMA, the Additional Managing Director of the X Index Companies, shared his heartfelt pride in being involved with Talent Chef. He praised the organization for always coming up with innovative ideas to help people. Although there are many options for purchasing food for friends and clients, the satisfaction they received from buying Talent Chef’s ‘box of happiness’ cannot be found anywhere else. Ruksana Jannat Snikdha, the Principal of Premier School Dhaka, expressed her delight in working with Talent Chef. Her school availed of their corporate iftar and allowed them to set up a booth on their premises. She reported that her students and their parents were happy with the quality of the food and its competitive prices.
Sifat-E- Azam, the Executive Director of the KK Foundation, shared that Talent Chef by KKF was launched with four pillars in mind: food, sourcing, people, and community. They hope that their actions, guided by these pillars, will help them achieve their social and business goals to secure a profitable and better future.
“ I think this is an amazing effort from an NGO who are really helping those in need. I wish them all the best for their present and future endeavours, and I will be sure to recommend them to other companies.”
“I hope that our friends and partners received the same level of satisfaction as us when they received this corporate gift. I wish Talent Chef the very best for all their upcoming activities and highly recommend other corporate ventures to keep them in mind for all their future gift box needs.”
“It’s a great experience for me. We not only took our corporate iftar, but also allow Talent Chef to set up their kiosk in our school premises as our canteen. Children, parents are happy about the quality of the food and price wise they are competitive. Me, along with the whole school team wish Talent Chef all the very best for their all upcoming ventures.”
“Talent Chef by KKF was launched keeping four pillars in mind- food, sourcing, people and community. We believe and hope our actions, guided by these pillars, will help us to achieve the social and business imperatives necessary to secure a profitable and better future. This is just the beginning of our venture, we still have a long way to go. We hope to have your support every step of the way.”
Photographs: Courtesy of KK Foundation