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Congress Promotion

Vanuatu Chefs and Foodhandlers Association
Monday, 14 July 2008

President

Grant Johnston

Vanuatau Chefs and Foodhandlers Association
P.O. Box 279
Lini Highway
Port Vila
Vanuatu
VANUATU

Tel: +678 5571671
Fax: +678 28111
Email: president@vanuatuchefs.com
Website: www.vanuatuchefs.com

Association Info ›

Representing the Chefs of Vanuatu both locally and overseas, the Vanuatu Chefs and Foodhandlers Association has been in existence now since early 2004 and has a paid up membership of 109 chefs representing 15 Venues. We are active in the promotion of safe food practices, promotion of local produce and the development of local chefs and Kitchen Staff. We are also currently administering a coin appeal for the Myanmar (Burma) Disaster

The Vanuatu National Culinary Team comprising of 5 young Ni-Vanuatu Chefs are a recent development of our Association and allows us to be seen on the international stage. In 2007 we competed in Fiji and returned with 4 silver medals, a bronze and a winner of Class.

This year we are intending to send part of the team to Fiji and part of the Team to Australia to broaden their experiences and enhance their skills we have also been invited to compete in the next Global Chefs Challenge being conducted by our parent body the World Association of Chefs Societies.

As part of our activities we also run the National Salon Culinaire and Trade Show which is being held once again this year at Le Lagon on November the 12-13th followed by our Annual Awards Dinner. We also conduct various fundraising activities during the year to support the association in its Endeavours.

The Association has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Wan Smol Theatre to provide dis-advantaged youths with work experience to assist them in the future and is working closely with both the HTLTC and the Vanuatu National Training Council to improve the training of our young students.

We are also looking at the feasibility of scholarship to pay for a student to attend the yearly HTLTC Catering Course and sending trainee chefs to our sister organizations in New Zealand or Australia for further training. The future of the Industry here in Vanuatu is looking bright with more and more boutique Resorts coming on-line and a couple of major Hotel developments planned for the future, this is a very exciting time for the chefs of Vanuatu and with the assistance we have received to present and in the future both from WACs and the ACF and other sister Associations in the Region we are looking forward to seeing how the next few years play out. I would like to personally thank the members of my committee who have put in some long hours FOC, along with Glenn Austin, Peter Wright, of Australia and Daniel Lenherr from Fiji.
 

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