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What if you could support a good cause and make money at the same time?
We're here visiting The Picha Project, a Malaysian startup doing just that.
The Picha Project operates like any other food catering business offering meal box delivery
catering services and even open houses where you get to meet the chef.
In fact, what makes the Picha Project different is the people making the food.
They're refugees from places like Myanmar, Syria and Afghanistan
and on the menu today is traditional Rohingya food
like this chicken curry, sambal and these delicious corn fritters.
Jasmina is a Rohingya refugee, and she's one of the many refugee chefs
working with the Malaysian startup.
She's making a Rohingya snack of corn fritters for today's open house.
I'm trying to help make an important part of Rohingya cuisine
a chilli paste called sambal belacan.
Jasmina also goes the extra mile, sharing some of her experiences of having to leave
Myanmar, and being a refugee for more than 20 years in Malaysia.
Making food in tiny home kitchens may not look like a sustainable business
but the Picha Project is determined to make it work.
The three founders behind Picha want to help people understand the issues
which refugees face, but they also want to build a good business.
We have to have a business, we have to run like a business to assist the needy today.
The reason why is, we don't want people burning out, we don't want people to have to
worry about whether they can put food on their own table
before putting food on other people's table.
The Picha Project operates as a for-profit business
and gives half of its revenue to its refugee partners,
with the rest going to salaries and operations.
It's been open for about 18 months and has made nearly
one million Malaysian ringgit, about $240,000.
It was previously making profits of between 15 and 20 percent,
until it hired new employees in September.
Now the startup is back at square one, trying to break even
but the founders are aiming to hit a 20 percent profit margin in six months' time.
It works with refugees from five countries giving consumers unusual food options
you'd be hard-pressed to find anywhere else.
The family from Syria offers Syrian classics like hummus
and a traditional Syrian sweet known as basbousa,
while Afghan chef Sakina makes Afghan flatbread and an addictive dumpling
covered with yogurt and dhal called mantu.
Picha found its first five families through the United Nations, and does everything from
doing sales pitches, setting up the catering and developing new products with the chefs.
There are more than 150,000 refugees in Malaysia.
While refugees hold United Nations cards, they aren't allowed to work legally.
That makes it incredibly difficult for them to make a living.
There are a lot of NGOs that are trying to help them all along.
Because it's not sustainable, they come and go.
We don't want to give someone hope, take it away, and give it again.
It's actually more damage.
Tickets to its open houses to meet the refugee chefs sell out quickly
and its monthly revenue has gone up eightfold
since they first started the business.
They've already fed the World Bank, the World Wildlife Fund,
Malaysia's central bank and many more organizations.
There were more than 65 million people displaced globally last year.
That's an unprecedented number, much higher than after World War II.
The refugee crisis is politically charged. That's for sure.
But that's not stopping parts of the private sector from pitching in
to help refugees make a new living in their societies.
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