New help alliance project in Brazil

09. April 2018

“Broadening Horizons” also offers employees opportunities to get involved

help alliance’s new project in South America saw 30 young men and women between the ages of 17 and 22 begin their training as bakers and pastry chefs this March. The program called “Broadening Horizons” not only offers young people prospects on the job market, but also gives employees of the Lufthansa Group’s locally based companies a chance to contribute their know-how and their skills to the project by acting as mentors to the trainees.

The project is located in Guarulhos, a city of over a million people, which is directly adjacent to Sao Paulo. The main works of LSG Sky Chefs in Latin America is in its immediate vicinity and many of the roughly 1,800 employees live nearby.

The training includes theoretical modules (the basics of management, law, communication, entrepreneurship, nutrition, etc.) as well as practical ones (hygiene, safety at work, handling equipment, reading recipes, cooking) and takes about six months.

Since there are many catering companies, hotels, hospitals and supermarket chains in the region, workers in this sector are in high demand.

“Brazil is an important market for the Lufthansa Group. There are more than 2,000 employees at Passage, Lufthansa Cargo, Systems, Consulting and LSG Sky Chefs. The Broadening Horizons project reinforces our commitment to Brazil and promotes training and further education opportunities for young people in the region,” says Erdmann Rauer, patron of the Lufthansa Group for South America and CEO of LSG Holding. “We are very pleased that we are now supporting another great project in South America and that Lufthansa Group employees can also get involved,” adds Andrea Pernkopf, the new managing director of help alliance. “This is the path we want to follow in the future.”

help alliance has funded the construction of the industrial kitchen, which is also used for practical lessons at the school. The partner organization “Escola Natasha” is contributing its infrastructural and teaching expertise to the project.

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