Food from home - cooking skills for young refugees

Imagine being a teenager who was forced to leave your country in a hurry. You have basic cooking skills but can’t make the food you really love from home. Food and flavours connect you to your memories and identity. Making food together is also community building, and that’s a vital ingredient to feeling at home in a new country and culture. Not cooking leads to a poor diet and poor focus on study or work.

Food from home is a project run by a group of ESOL teachers from Hammersmith and West London College and the refugee charity West London Welcome. We are raising money to pay for a chef and the food and resources to run a weekly cooking session for our young refugee students who want to learn how to cook the food they miss from home, maybe roti, injera, kissara, asseeda, kibbeh…

Every donation, however small, will help us be able to run these sessions. All the people involved have volunteered freely, but we would like to pay our refugee chef something if we can. Thank you so much in advance. We will share photos and also invite all donors to a meal at the end of term to celebrate (and eat!) what has been learned.