Olai Puttu, a restaurant primarily based in Thoothukudi, specialises in conventional Sri Lankan meals ready by girls from refugee camps in and round Thoothukudi. It’s supported by NGOs Organisation For Elangai Refugees Rehabilitation (OfERR), UNHCR and Tamil Nadu Authorities. It serves dishes such an puttu, idiyappam and meen kuzhambu ready by the ladies.
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A girls prepping masalas
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As you learn this, a gaggle of Sri Lankan girls from Thoothukudi — from their refugee camps within the metropolis — are on their technique to Chennai with luggage of pre-prepped masalas, spices, and freshly floor rice flour. That is for the upcoming two-day Refugee Meals Competition, Oorum Unnavum, to commemorate World Refugee Day themed on Hope away from Residence.
It’s organised by the State Authorities and the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)in partnership with the Organisation for Eelam Refugees’ Rehabilitation (OfERR), Benefit Meals (Sizzling Breads, Author’s Café), amongst different stakeholders with the steering of the State Authorities.
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All set to have a stall on the competition, the ladies have been busy prepping all week. “They’ve dry roasted masalas, and floor condiments like cinnamon, cardamom, and pepper for his or her distinctive Sri Lankan masalas. Rice flour was cleaned, floor within the mill, sieved, after which packaged,” says Sinnathamby Sooriyakumary, secretary, OfERR.
Guests can look ahead to dishes resembling puttu with fish curry, egg roll, prawn curry, string hoppers, vegetarian, hen, and fish meals, and diversified sorts of buns, amongst different delicacies. Additionally becoming a member of the Sri Lankan girls are refugees from Afghan and Myanmar (residing in Chennai) who will arrange a stall every with delicacies resembling Kabuli pulao, channa soup, and so on.
Olai Puttu, a restaurant primarily based in Thoothukudi, specialises in conventional Sri Lankan meals ready by girls from refugee camps in and round Thoothukudi.
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N. Rajesh
“Final 12 months, in partnership with NGOs, led by the Commissionerate of Rehabilitation a ability evaluation of Sri Lankan refugees was accomplished throughout the State. They expressed curiosity in working companies inside the camps or of their neighborhood. Conventional Sri Lankan meals has good market potential and we determined to faucet into it,” explains a consultant from the UNHCR, including how ability coaching and help is supplied by the Authorities to over 56,000 refugees dwelling within the 104 camps and outdoors in Tamil Nadu.
String hoppers
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“The ladies will likely be getting ready a conventional Sri Lankan lunch, and the occasion goals to not simply present the refugees a platform, however for them to get enterprise leads and their abilities to be acknowledged. Operational bills are borne by us, and all sale proceeds go on to the refugees,” he elaborates. The ladies, Sooriyakumary says, are excited. “ Although they’ve participated in such occasions up to now — just like the meals stall arrange this January on Elliot’s Seashore promoting Sri Lankan snacks — this one is totally different. They are going to be serving a whole lunch (meals priced upwards of ₹160) and likewise working with different communities.”
On June 24 and 25 at Semmozhi Poonga, Cathedral Highway, from Midday to eight pm. Pre-bookings for the lunch will shut on June 22 (for Saturday) and June 23 (for Sunday). For particulars, name 9176483735 or e mail [email protected]