Saffron
Kitchen
Project

Eat · Cook · Learn · Belong your culinary community

Saffron Kitchen Project is about people, food, building community and creating lasting opportunities for vulnerable people in Athens. Food is about love, comfort and hospitality. There is a kindness in the practice of preparing meals for others, the perfect opportunity to make people feel welcome. We’re here to support each other, using food as the tool kit.

SKP team

Drawing on many years of experience in the hospitality industry as well as the humanitarian sector we identified a need for access to nutritious food, professional training and job opportunities for refugees.

At Saffron Kitchen Project we aim to do exactly that. We cook meals together, provide specialised training and create opportunities for people with refugee backgrounds to support themselves and grow their own skill sets.

SKP Meal

‘Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.’

Yotam Ottolenghi

With this in mind we came up with our pillars, the cornerstones of what SKP is built on…

Employ
Nourish
Train

Employ

We demonstrate our commitment to tackling unemployment in Greece by not only employing but also generating job opportunities for people from the refugee and hosting community.

Employ

We demonstrate our commitment to tackling unemployment in Greece by not only employing but also generating job opportunities for people from the refugee and hosting community.

Nourish

Provide vulnerable people with warm, nutritious and inventive meals in a dignified and sustainable way. We partner with several organisations that support vulnerable people throughout Athens, distributing delicious meals whilst avoiding food waste as much as possible.

Train

We offer free culinary education and vocational training in partnership with IEK Delta. In an effort to prepare our students for work in the hospitality industry, the programme comprises culinary skills as well as soft skills training such as teamwork, leadership and time management. Upon completion students will receive an accredited EOPEP certificate which will aid them in entering the job market.

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