STREETS International is a social enterprise with a mission to create a better future for disadvantaged youth in Vietnam via hospitality training. If you travel to the lovely UNESCO World Heritage town of Hoi An, Vietnam be sure to stroll by Le Loi Street to visit STREETS Restaurant Café, and take part in its Oodles of Noodles experience.
Written by STREETS International founder Neal F Bermas, this post is sponsored by the publisher of The “Good Tourism” Blog.
Every nine months, STREETS recruits 25 program participants (called ‘Trainees’) from all over Vietnam for an 18-month life changing journey. The Trainees come from poor rural families, isolated ethnic minority villages, orphanages, and city streets. Some have even been rescued from enslavement.
At STREETS, Trainees are provided dormitory-style housing, food, all daily supplies, basic medical care, and supervision all at no cost to them. Their life at STREETS is rigorously structured to suit an ambitious hospitality training and apprenticeship designed to launch them into professional careers as confident, self-reliant adults.
Over the 18-month program, Trainees study English, computer skills, life skills (e.g., food safety and hygiene, gender equality, budgeting, etc.), as well as the professional culinary and hospitality skills they will need to find jobs.
STREETS runs its own acclaimed restaurant and culinary tours in which Trainees can practise their newly-acquired skills. Guests are delighted with the award-winning service and food, which is why the restaurant is a tourist favourite, receiving thousands … To continue reading for free, and with no strings attached, please visit https://goodtourismblog.com/2021/10/streets-international-sustainable-tourism-at-its-best/