Africa: French Catering Company Gives Refugee Women a Recipe for Success

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French catering company Bande de Cheffes employs women displaced from their own countries to cook food from around the world. The goal is to make the most of refugees' talents while allowing them to earn their own living.

French catering company Bande de Cheffes employs women displaced from their own countries to cook food from around the world. The goal is to make the most of refugees' talents while allowing them to earn their own living.

"I did not even know how to say 'bonjour' when I came here in 2019. I found the grammar so difficult, the 'tu', the 'vous'. But I quickly took lessons and I was fearless in trying to survive: finding jobs as a nanny, looking for a place to sleep each night," the 28-year old Ugandan told RFI. After having spent some 20 years working in the humanitarian sector, from the French Red Cross to the Social Economy ministry, Leluc felt that as a social entrepreneur, she could create jobs for exiled women who would otherwise find it difficult, if not impossible, to find work in France.

Her salt cod gratin is just one of the recipes that the refugee chefs have contributed to the menu, which also includes Samah's sweet coconutNataliia was a midwife in Ukraine for 30 years. She fled to France in March 2022 because of the war with Russia and joined Bande de Cheffes in the following year thanks to an advert posted on Instagram.

Part of the team since April 2023, she makes an addictive red chilli sauce and is working on a recipe for"I thought that France was this Garden of Eden. Then when you come here, you see beggars, people living in the streets," she told RFI."I just could not understand how this place works."

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