Youth problem can successfully for 10 years go to Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen – Parool.nl

Youth problem can successfully for 10 years go to Jamie Oliver's Fifteen – Parool.nl

07-12-14 09:55 pm – Source: Reuters

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As one of the first he started ten years ago with the cooking school of Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant in Amsterdam. Donovan Collar was seventeen and there was time only, without a father and mother. He is now an independent cook and sees training as a rescue

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The restaurant at the Amsterdam IJ breathes Jamie Oliver. On the wall hang pictures of the famous British chef surrounded by students in the cabinet are cookbooks and magazines. Oliver himself is now rare to find. His goal is to come once a year, but the calendar does not always allow this. Yet he is under Coen Alewijnse, one of the founders of Fifteen Amsterdam, sincerely involved in the case.

Annual leads Fifteen Amsterdam twenty to thirty young people between 18 and 24 years old. They are mostly young people without work or education. Often there is more to it, such as debts or drug problem. Besides the training to cook is therefore put in order their personal situation. “Otherwise it makes no sense to teach them something,” says Alewijnse.

He knew when he and friend Sarriel Taus plan for ‘good food with a social factor not thought it would be so great . “Fifteen was then hot and happening in London. I took the plunge and I went there with our idea to set this up in Amsterdam. After a long conversation Oliver said to my surprise: we’re going to do this. ” Meanwhile, there is also a third Fifteen Cornwall.

Finish Line
Of the more than two hundred students who followed a course of ten years, 129 have reached the finish line. Alewijnse is satisfied with this result. Over the years, there is a changed. Thus the flow of young people three times a year, making the kitchen a mix of beginners and more advanced students occurs. “They also see it this way where they can be in a few months.”

He sees the hospitality industry as a very convenient way to help this group to work. “It is hierarchical, you work with your hands.” Already run tempers sometimes high up in the kitchen. “As the counselors are trained. It happens that someone is sent down to cool off. “

The 19-year-old Jeraimy Gieyra completes the training in a few weeks. Then he gets their first degree. “I am very well coached. They call you even get out of bed if necessary. For the first time in my life something went super. Now I’m going through self cook ‘

(By: Editors).