Abu Dhabi food center provides jobs for people of determination
The Zayed Higher Organisation for People of Determination (ZHO) has inaugurated a new food packaging factory where a handful of people of determination will be employed in permanent jobs and trained in their professional careers.
The new Al Bahia centre with Fresh on Table will pick up, pack, store and distribute fruits, vegetables, dairy, poultry, fish, honey and animals products.
The ZHO Secretary-General Abdullah Abdul Ali Al Humaidan said the partnership with Fresh on Table helps to promote the Foundation’s organic food and boosts the career prospects of people of determination.
‘The packaging centre will be a prime location to enhance the professional skills of staff through specific rehabilitation programmes,’ he added, ‘in order to prepare them for greater employment’.
Al Humaidan also spoke of ZHO’s intention to build more private sector collaboration, as businesses across industries are urged to invest in and hire ambitious individuals. He also praised the contribution that Fresh on Table was making to local farming and sustainability, in helping the UAE achieve food security, and in lowering carbon emissions by bringing production and consumption together.
Fresh on Table Founder and CEO Atul Chopra, said the alliance with ZHO is a proud part of the company’s sustainability and social responsibility mission.
"This partnership illustrates our adherence to sustainability as an approach to inspire powerful and impactful People of Determination within our Emirati community," he said. The future projects will be led by People of Determination, and we are proud of our dedication to transparency. Our goal is with our platform to empower our HORECA (Hotels, Restaurants, and Cafés) members to act as environmental decision-makers and agricultural supporters."
New on Table, an agtech company that is passionate about local farms and sustainability, is trying to minimise the carbon impact by keeping food production and consumption in close coordination. Fresh on Table – bringing fresh, local ingredients from the farm to the table by linking local farmers to the HORECA industry – is making it easy to bring fresh, local foods from farm to plate for food security and sustainable production.
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