A free school training 40 professions in the long term, open to everyone, from 16 to 62 years old, with no diploma requirement and with courses taught by the greatest chefs: this is Emahi, the Marseille School of Food and the hotel industry through inclusion, the new project of the Marseille gastronomic and solidarity restaurant “Le République”, which intends to integrate each year, from September, 1,500 people removed from employment for various reasons after having “trained its trainers” from April.
The two triple starred Marseilles, Gérald Passédat and Alexandre Mazzia, will be part of the adventure with Thierry Marx who sponsors this school whose courses will be taught outside the walls in around twenty establishments, but also Georgiana Viou or Sébastien Richard, the head of the Republic.
“I will try to give back what was given to me”
“This school participates in the social and solidarity economy which is not an economy of mercy but the means of breaking the social divide,” explains Thierry Marx, also president of Umih (Union of Trades and Industries of the hotel industry) and member of the office of the association Les Entreprises s’engage.
“We must show that in this society, we are not assigned a status.
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“It’s a project of the heart, I will try to give back what was given to me, the kindness and the sharing of skills,” adds Alexandre Mazzia, in charge of feeding the athletes during the Paris Olympics. and who will run a campus on the links between food and sport.
“Marseille is on the way to becoming the capital of solidarity gastronomy,” notes Guillaume Gomez, Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for food and gastronomy, who supports this project which should be integrated into the Marseille presidential program at large.