MVV Foundation, Hemco Group's philanthropic arm, has seated its third culinary-skilling cohort. Forty apprentices, drawn from Uttar Pradesh and three neighbouring states, will spend the next nine months training inside the group's kitchen platform.
The programme is structured as a paid apprenticeship. Trainees rotate through fabrication, pre-production, line, and service stations — and finish with a placement at a group kitchen, a partner restaurant, or a hotel that hires from the cohort. Two-thirds of the previous cohorts are still placed inside the industry.
The foundation operates on a small budget by design. The thesis is that the group's manufacturing platform is itself the curriculum — there is no shortage of equipment, mentors, or live work to train against.
Applications for the next cohort open in the spring. Partners interested in absorbing graduates, or in seating apprentices in their own kitchens, should write to the foundation directly.