Sorghum Sisters

The Sorghum Sisters is a community based catering enterprise operating from Carlton Primary School. The Sorghum Sisters offer traditional cuisine from the countries in the Horn of Africa as well as providing a healthy lunch program to the school community.

The Sorghum Sisters produce traditional Injera bread and other African cuisine including savory and sweets such as, 'tuna fatira', sambosas, African donuts and date and cardamon biscuits. They also train other women from their community in food handling and preparation, to help provide them with greater work opportunities.

Sorghum Sisters catering menu

 Partners

• Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
• Carlton Primary School
• Department for Victorian Communities
• Horn of Africa Community Network  

SAHA Catering, Sydney-based enterprise

Saha Catering is the first AMES Social Enterprise to be established in Sydney. The main aim of Saha is to improve access to employment pathways for clients from a CALD background who face multiple barriers to employment.

Currently Saha runs short term accredited courses in basic skills in hospitality, aimed at improving the client’s chances of securing employment in the industry as a kitchen or sandwich hand.

Saha also takes catering orders to create a real-life training environment in which the students can acquire valuable workplace skills such as working to a schedule, meeting standards and team work as well as improving language and cross cultural skills and reduce social isolation. A delicious multicultural menu has been developed.When you order from Saha you are also supporting a disadvantaged person to gain work skills.

Currently the program has achieved a 55% employment outcome rate with long term unemployed clients.

This project was mainly funded by AMES and its partners as follows: