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COOKtastic & The Dis-Chem Foundation on The Flash Drive with Carl Wastie · The Flash Drive with Carl Wastie

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  Speaker 1: In five Here we go, Here we Go. I did
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  Speaker 1: mention to you that our friends from the Discam Foundation
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  Speaker 1: were back again today. And what I love doing is
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  Speaker 1: not only giving opportunities to people through my friend Jackie
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  Speaker 1: from the Discam Foundation, but I also enjoy the fact
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  Speaker 1: that opportunities have to be sustainable. They have to be
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  Speaker 1: not just hey, well done, you are getting this much
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  Speaker 1: support chers by. I like hearing what is happening with
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  Speaker 1: those organizations, those people who have received so many donations
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  Speaker 1: from the Discam Foundation thanks to you, because every swipe
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  Speaker 1: can't you know that? And I figured for something different.
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  Speaker 1: Let's catch up with one of these organizations today to
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  Speaker 1: find out how things are going now. You may remember
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  Speaker 1: almost two years ago on the flash drive with the
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  Speaker 1: Discam Foundation, we were introduced to an extraordinary female led
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  Speaker 1: NPO called cook Tastic and they explained about how they
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  Speaker 1: are making differences and changes in the community, and we
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  Speaker 1: had to know more. We had to do more. Hello boy,
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  Speaker 1: Hello car So let's talk about Cooktastic, about what you do.
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  Speaker 1: And this is why I called you in because you
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  Speaker 1: do such great work in the community and I believe
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  Speaker 1: that you are helping young people establish themselves in the
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  Speaker 1: culinary industries.
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  Speaker 2: That correct, That is correct.
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  Speaker 3: So what Koctastic does is that we train young people
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  Speaker 3: for employment Sokotastic Hub the skills development program.
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  Speaker 2: We're not just offering skills.
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  Speaker 3: Were offering quality accredited and youf Level three culinary training.
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  Speaker 3: And we don't just do that. We first kind of
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  Speaker 3: start with what we call work readiness training because we're
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  Speaker 3: working with young people that are coming from communities that
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  Speaker 3: are affected by social ills. So what we do is
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  Speaker 3: that we get them into the program. We start with
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  Speaker 3: their personal development. We work with them in terms of
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  Speaker 3: their leadership skills, we work with them in terms of
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  Speaker 3: their work ethic.
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  Speaker 2: And then we kind of polish these.
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  Speaker 3: Diamonds and ensure that, you know, they're kind of well
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  Speaker 3: polished before they can get into the inn.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you remind me of a friend of mine
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  Speaker 1: who has a very similar feeling, and her name is Jackie.
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  Speaker 1: Hello Jackie, what type of love do you want to
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  Speaker 1: share with them we today, Jackie, I'd love to know.
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  Speaker 4: So the Diskim Foundation would like to give you one
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  Speaker 4: hundred and twenty thousand rare.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is the moment almost two years ago with
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  Speaker 1: Cooktastic and the thing is great. One hundred and twenty thousand, Raan,
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  Speaker 1: It's huge from the Discam Foundation. But let's find out
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  Speaker 1: how that made the difference that they needed. Let's find
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  Speaker 1: it from Cooktastic themselves.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Kayley, Hello Carl, how are you today?
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic? Remember that moment with him, Boye? How beautiful was that?
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  Speaker 5: It was very emotional. I still get goosebumps to this
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  Speaker 5: day when I think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're a head lecturer at Cooktastic and you can
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  Speaker 1: tangibly see the difference that a contribution like the Discom
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  Speaker 1: Foundation's contribution can make within the walls of Cooktastic. So
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  Speaker 1: how have things been going since that donation and also
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  Speaker 1: since that bit of pr so to speak, to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that your organization continues to do the great work.
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  Speaker 1: How are you guys doing?
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  Speaker 4: Ok?
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  Speaker 5: Are We're doing great? We go from strength to strengths.
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  Speaker 5: And since we receive that donation from the disc And Foundation,
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  Speaker 5: we put majority of it into uniforms for the student
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  Speaker 5: love it and this creates a sense of belonging and
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  Speaker 5: the students start to become a family because they can
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  Speaker 5: identify themselves in the uniform with their peers. And this
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  Speaker 5: uniform also enables the students to look professional and look
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  Speaker 5: the part when they go for in service training, so
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  Speaker 5: that is a huge, huge part of this industry is
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  Speaker 5: also looking professional, So we start right from the beginning
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  Speaker 5: making sure that their uniform is the first thing they have.
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  Speaker 5: They become part of a family, because some of them
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  Speaker 5: come from communities that are a little bit broken, so
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  Speaker 5: this feels like their first family for some of them,
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  Speaker 5: so that is very important for us. And then some
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  Speaker 5: of the donation also went into sourcing local ingredients for
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  Speaker 5: our practical cooking.
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  Speaker 1: Legs, the Patrol cooking Yes, so Kayleie, I know for
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  Speaker 1: a fact that that made a massive difference, and it's
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  Speaker 1: beautiful so that you can have that ability to to
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  Speaker 1: grab something like that and actually make that donation spread
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  Speaker 1: across the entire organization, which I know is very healthy
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  Speaker 1: at the moment. But of course, the true test of
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  Speaker 1: an organization's health in terms of what they want to
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  Speaker 1: do is hearing some of the stories that have really
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  Speaker 1: been success stories. And that's why today yaish, hello.
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  Speaker 2: How's it going called Leca.
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  Speaker 1: You are a former Cooktastic student, so you would know
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  Speaker 1: that when Katie says what she says, it's really happening
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  Speaker 1: inside the walls of cook Tastic. Tell me how has
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  Speaker 1: that organization changed your life?
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  Speaker 6: Friend, I must say it's changed my life completely. I've
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  Speaker 6: met people would have thought would never have met. I've
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  Speaker 6: living a completely different life now. It's really helped me
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  Speaker 6: as a person and community as all.
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  Speaker 1: So tell me where are you from originally before you
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  Speaker 1: got a chance of Cooktastic, where were you sitting in
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  Speaker 1: your life?
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to know a bit more about that story.
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  Speaker 6: I'm from Alsie Schimmer came Toime, yeah, and very stricken
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  Speaker 6: by poverty. And you know, you see all of these
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  Speaker 6: things on a daily basis. And I mean I just
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  Speaker 6: finished high school, coming out donturally with the plan, and
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  Speaker 6: I mean my mother actually forced me to go to Cooktastic.
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  Speaker 6: I wasn't to find the idea because I know chefs
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  Speaker 6: work hard. Yeah, So so then I went forward, went
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  Speaker 6: for interview, and I mean from there I just went
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  Speaker 6: from strength to strength.
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  Speaker 2: I can hear that now.
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  Speaker 1: Only talk about strength to strength. One true testament of
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  Speaker 1: an organization like cook Tastic is if at the moment
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  Speaker 1: you have a job in let's just say the field
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  Speaker 1: that you trained in, so yaish, do you have a
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  Speaker 1: job in the field that you trained in.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I'm actually sue chef acting you very stepoint. What's
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  Speaker 6: it called Figo Cope collation.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, How incredible is that you're a Sioux chef Alsie's
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  Speaker 1: high school cook tastic Sux chef at Figo inc Point,
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  Speaker 1: one of the hottest up and coming restaurants.
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  Speaker 2: Look at you go, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations and you know, I know we just met, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm very proud of you for taking an opportunity, those
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  Speaker 1: resources and making it work so beautifully for yourself. And
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  Speaker 1: do you still have big ambitions going forward?
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  Speaker 6: Yes? Yes, Honestly speaking, I see myself being the best
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  Speaker 6: ship in the wall.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, manir I love that.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, yeahsh I feel you on that one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent. And I can see where this is going.
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  Speaker 1: There's a little guide called Michelon and I'm just saying,
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  Speaker 1: do it, brother, do what ya I know?
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  Speaker 2: I no, no, I'm sorry. I'm a dreamer.
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  Speaker 1: I go straight to the top of the dreams. I
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  Speaker 1: go straight to the jagular Ahi. Yeah, each congratulations and
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad. Let's just say it's just a quick one
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  Speaker 1: for any student who is wondering what happens next them
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  Speaker 1: going to cook Tastic. What do you want to say
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  Speaker 1: to the students, those parents that are thinking, like where
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  Speaker 1: do I send my kid died? I don't have the
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  Speaker 1: money of the means, Uh, speak to them for a
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  Speaker 1: second and tell them why Cooktastic is a great place
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  Speaker 1: to go.
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  Speaker 6: So firstly, Cotastics are family. I mean, I've made some
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  Speaker 6: of my best friends Accurtastic. They're all doing while in
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  Speaker 6: the field as well of shipping, And I mean it's
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  Speaker 6: my best decision was going to Koktastic. That made me
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  Speaker 6: feel welcome. They gave me a purpose I could say,
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  Speaker 6: and a passion, made people along the way to learn
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  Speaker 6: so many skills, not only within cooking, within life as well.
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  Speaker 6: So I mean basically I could tell Apear and just
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  Speaker 6: do it. Send your child cry fool, but he is
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  Speaker 6: just do it.
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  Speaker 2: Love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you very much for being a great ambassador
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  Speaker 1: for cook Tastic And now for the Cove Collection's Hottest
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  Speaker 1: new restaurant, Old Figo. You know, the nice thing about
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  Speaker 1: talking to Sue Chefs live on radio on KF ninety
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  Speaker 1: four point five is that you can't say no to
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  Speaker 1: me when I say Coppola Table. You understand what I'm saying, like,
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  Speaker 1: you can't say no, right.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what are you? Thank you very much?
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Am I going to die? Plan? No, I'm calling you ish,
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 2: No, Mina, I'm sorry, I'm not going to click on
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  Speaker 2: a dayton. How many people I'm going to call it directly?
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  Speaker 2: They say, hello, I'm in your area? Why that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations my friends.
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  Speaker 1: Seriously, it's beautiful and it just shows you how powerful
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  Speaker 1: the DISCOM Foundation is and the power is shared thanks
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  Speaker 1: to people like you.
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  Speaker 2: Jackie.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Carl, you're not going to say go without me?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, that's I'm trying to get the table for us. Jackie.
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  Speaker 1: This is our because we haven't had our team building yet,
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  Speaker 1: so like this is she's gonna hook us up at Figo.
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  Speaker 2: You're coming down to Kton, let's do this thing.
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  Speaker 4: Thoughts amazing. So that is so beautiful and I just
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  Speaker 4: love listening to it, and I'm fantastic. Has been one
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  Speaker 4: of my most passionate initiatives that we've gotten involved in.
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  Speaker 4: And I must tell you that one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 4: thousand we reviewed and renewed it after a year. That
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  Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty thousand into two hundred and forty thousands.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't tell me that.
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  Speaker 4: What I know right, Yes, we're now giving them ten
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  Speaker 4: thousand random months in order to enable them to have
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  Speaker 4: more of these incredible people become successful. And a very
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  Speaker 4: beautiful story that I just wanted to share with you
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  Speaker 4: was when we onboarded them as beneficiaries. With the young
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  Speaker 4: lady working at the Western. She did her internship and
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  Speaker 4: she left, so she was so passionate she asked the
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  Speaker 4: executive checky she could continued to go back just to
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  Speaker 4: learn until she found a job because they didn't hesitation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: And as it so happened that on the day that
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  Speaker 4: we went through It's the Best Western, and we after
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  Speaker 4: the video of the other chat from Cooptastic that was
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  Speaker 4: working on the executive floor, she was there and chief
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  Speaker 4: told that she had a permanent tradition with them, and
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  Speaker 4: she goes into chairs in front of the camera. We
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  Speaker 4: all cry. I still get emotional when I see it.
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  Speaker 4: She is now she has left and gone to Switzerland
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  Speaker 4: to a cooking school. She was that good and she
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  Speaker 4: was offered that opportunity. So she's now sadly left our borders,
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  Speaker 4: but hopefully will come back from Switzerland from amazing tuitional
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  Speaker 4: or cooking tuitional school, the next level culinary.
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  Speaker 1: I'm stunning. I'm stunned by that because next, right, your next, next,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be great. I did not know that
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  Speaker 1: you're renewed that that contribution. Wow, I like how you
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  Speaker 1: hide things from me. Is that that we are in
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  Speaker 1: our relationship now great.
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  Speaker 4: Well we haven't seen.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, great, all right, we're going to Figo. Your issus
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  Speaker 1: is going to hook us up at Jackie. Honestly, it's
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  Speaker 1: nice to reflect back on the work that's been done.
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  Speaker 1: And as I mentioned in the beginning of this conversation,
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  Speaker 1: it is the sustainability that's more important to me than
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  Speaker 1: anything else. And to know that you've continued that contribution,
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  Speaker 1: it means it means about the lasting, the lasting efforts
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  Speaker 1: that the Discom Foundation is doing, and in a way,
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  Speaker 1: the story about the chef in Switzerland, it means that
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  Speaker 1: we all got a chance to contribute because we are
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  Speaker 1: better Rewards program members and every swipe does indeed count.
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  Speaker 1: It counts towards putting people in positions where they can
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  Speaker 1: excel and actually put South Africa as a.
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  Speaker 2: Whole on the map.
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  Speaker 1: Globally, we get to be a community that helps that
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  Speaker 1: forward and I think that is the true power of
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  Speaker 1: the Discom Foundation and this platform. So thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for igniting this on this show and for everybody
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  Speaker 1: it just means so much.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Carlin. It is it's a beautiful initiative and
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  Speaker 4: we are We're making huge differences and you're making sure
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  Speaker 4: everybody hears about them.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you anytime, Jackie.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait for our next chat and our tea
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  Speaker 1: building at Figo thanks to the aish like.
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  Speaker 2: Love it you enjoy. That's Jackie and the Discam Foundation.
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  Speaker 1: And do you remember you can sign up for the
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  Speaker 1: disc and Better Awards program where every of your swipe,
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  Speaker 1: every one of your swipes counts towards beautiful moments like
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  Speaker 1: this Discam Better Awards card holders, they help support the
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  Speaker 1: incredible work of the Discom Foundation. That's you, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: and amazing organizations like Cooptastic can go forward and create
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  Speaker 1: these culindary maestros that really put South Africa on the
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  Speaker 1: map and make us proud. If you're not a member
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  Speaker 1: just yet, go to discam dot coz to find out
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  Speaker 1: how you can join the disc and Better awards program
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  Speaker 1: where every swipe counts.