The Ottawa Mission's Food Services Training Program teaches students the skills necessary for working in a commercial kitchen.
The Ottawa Mission's executive chef Ric Watson and his team will prepare 12,000 meals for Thanksgiving this year.
"It's amazing. I feel blessed to be able to do this," Chef Ric Allen-Watson told Newstalk 580 CFRA's Ottawa Now. The new graduates include Panah, who is originally from Iran and came to Canada in 2022 after living in Turkey and working as a translator for refugee support. "The Ottawa Mission has helped her get an apartment, start a new life in this training program. She has a job and her and her husband are both working now, so it's amazing to see the change in how they come to us with nothing and then they leave and they're just a whole different person."
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