A hospitality School focus on Local communities trainings that supports Game Lodges and Hotels' expectations.
Sundays River Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa

"Living instead of surviving"

Addo African Home eco lodge developed NukaKamma Talent Development Center, a hospitality school in order to reduce the poverty of the region, generating new jobs, and helping local communities having decent living conditions thanks to the Jobs get in Premium Lodges and Game Reserve around.

NTDC is a non profit company, which set up a unique hospitality school concept developed by NHS Training PTY.

Our mission

Learning a technical skill is the best way to get a job, earn a living and improve your daily life.

Our mission is to teach, train and certify young people coming from Townships in order to help them to get technical skills for life, and in the same time, support Lodges and hotel establishments to hire qualified people.

Our offer

Hospitality and catering trainings

NukaKamma offers is mainly focus on Initial training to youth people who have been out of school and have not completed their studies. NukaKamma uplifts technical skills of staff lodges and offers entrepreneurship training to those graduates who want develop their own businesses.

Our Hospitality School offers 4 different specialities at the moment : cooking, service en salle, bakery and accommodation services.

Why?

NukaKamma aims to be the "Link".

Youth unemployment is on the rise in South Africa, and hotel schools are not accessible to all local communities living in the townships. By the way, the majority of companies in the hotel and tourism sector report difficulties in recruiting locally trained staff for the various Lodges, GAme Reserves and hotel and catering trades. In the Eastern Cape region, the 2d poorest of the country, 72% of the youth are not graduated because of the lack of employment opportunities. 17% of the youth only get a bachelor degree and the unemployment rate is at a whopping 57% in the Sundays River Valley region.

How?

Offering top-level skills

We have designed a "doing to learn" program that accompanies the students for 12 months. At the end of the year, they are SETA graduates. The schooling program is a mix of practice, theory and meetings with prestigious foreign Top Chefs who come in residence to transmit their technical knowledge. NukaKamma benefits of the support of an international Top Chefs network.

For who?

Training youth people from local communities

The students are mainly youth out of school community members who need to get technical skills in the hospitality industry in order to find a job or create their own business to energize the local economy. Tourism is growing up and the hotel establishments need to upgrade service levels. Students typically have poor education, limited access to economic opportunities and lack job-seeking skills. Our selection criteria boil down to motivation, commitment to the community and a desire to work with "others".

NukaKamma issues

Education

Develop educational projects, including teaching, vocational training and the transfer of knowledge and skills, aimed at meeting the basic human needs of people living in extreme poverty, particularly women and young people.

Local communities

To work with local communities across South Africa and Africa to bring about positive economic social, and environmental impacts.

Economic inclusion

To ensure social and economic inclusion of previously and currently disadvantaged and or isolation groups and marginalized communities. Creating jobs, developing entrepreneur, uplifting technical skills.

Cultural exchange

NukaKamma facilitates cultural exchange between South Africa and France as well as other countries wishing that share the objectives of the organization. International Chefs spend 8-10 days in residence at NukaKamma to provide a high level of expertise to the students. Our students will also participate in exchange programmes with French training and learning centers in order to offer a unique cultural exchange. . French students will come to NukaKamma for immersion, and South African students will be sent to French schools and restaurants to gain first world experience.

Network of partners

NukaKamma benefits of a network of partners, private and public organisations that support the purpose of the organisation. A repertoire of 126 top chefs supports us.