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The Super Manang program: culinary skills and a livelihood for women.
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Our impact
Education, ecology, and opportunity.
CELI's story connects culinary education with environmental stewardship and sustainable livelihood — from one vision in 2001 to a growing network of communities.
Be part of the workWhat the work has already made possible.
- 826
- Total scholars recorded
- 700+
- CLP graduates cited
- 90%
- Working in F&B
- 20K+
- Hot meals during pandemic
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Watch the work take root.
Cooking For Life
Scholars, and the work that followed.
Lyka Mae Sinfuego, Dan Louis Placido, and Jake Serafin on the paths opened by the Cooking For Life and Rotary scholarship programs.
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Sustainable communities, built with the people who live there.
Susana Guerrero’s work has taken root in communities across the Philippines, linking culinary training with livelihood and care for the land.
01
Bulacan
02
Leyte
03
Agusan del Sur
04
Butuan City
How the mission takes shape
Three paths, one table.
01
Empower
Give people practical skills, pathways to work, and the confidence to build self-sufficient lives.
02
Educate
Make culinary learning accessible to deserving individuals and communities.
03
Steward
Promote responsible food production and practical responses to ecological challenges.
Programs
Programs built around people, food, and the planet.
Culinary Education
Cooking For Life Program
A three-month intensive, hands-on culinary training program for underprivileged individuals seeking employment in the food and beverage industry, run with CCA Manila.
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Green Skills
Green Chefmanship Training
A sixteen-hour training program developed to promote environmental management in food production, in collaboration with Earth Day Network Philippines.
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Livelihood
The Super Manang Project
An outreach livelihood program developing basic culinary skills among women in underserved communities, including fish deboning skills linked to employment opportunities.
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Green Technology
The Earth Kitchen
A renewable-energy technology project featuring a caramelizer stove, solar-powered food dehydrator, solar dryer for buko shells, and slow-cooking stove.
Explore →From one vision to a growing network.
2001
CELI is created
Formerly Culinary Education Foundation, Inc., the organization was created in September 2001 with the support of individuals sharing the same aspiration.
2013
Cooking For Life grows
Project batch records begin with CLP-Katipunan and CLP-Candon scholars.
2016
The Earth Kitchen
Completed April 22, 2016, the project demonstrates renewable-energy technologies with potential to reduce energy consumption.
Today
Education + ecology + opportunity
CELI continues its work through culinary scholarships, green training, livelihood programs, environmental technologies, and partnerships.