Every Thursday and Friday, Shamim Lakhani’s cooking is sold — together with dishes prepared by other Ismaili women — to busy members of the Dubai Jamat who are eager for home cooked traditional food. Her cooking provides her with a strong sense of fulfilment as well as being a consistent source of income for her family.
The Jamat in Dubai includes a disproportionate number of bachelors and young families, who, with all the pressures of work and modern life, find it difficult to prepare traditional home cooked meals. Meanwhile, many older women in the Jamat possess exceptional cooking skills and an enterprising spirit. The opportunity to come together was obvious, and led to the creation of a Golden Alliance.
More: The Ismaili: Entrepreneurial women transform home-cooked meals into a source of income.
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Something to consider for Jamat Worldwide, North America, Europe and Far east countries in particular.
Chicago was the pioneer in this activities, now we have discontinued and Dubai has reinvented…
I remember we used to do the same cooking process in Chicago not too long ago, and recently we have discontinued, due to insurance / fear…
I wish our leadership would come up with proper mechanism and reconsider a group such as Golden Alliance of Dubai.
We do have tons of volunteers who wants to contribute their time and talents in cooking and stitching…
All we need to reconsider is that, with proper organization following with the city compliance, occupy our people as a volunteer or on reasonable wages towards the work that they would enjoy and stay active.
A lot of our families do require additional income that would arise out of this community based service,
yes, I understand it would require a certified and permitted kitchen-since it would be a commercial -for-profit unit-pass regular inspections and be limited at the beginning at least, to our community (from insurance liability aspect) community kitchens have been successful in other communities.
Good Luck,
Sadruddin Noorani
Chicago
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