Our co-founders Mark and Tommi in Oaxaca Mexico leaning against a wall outside the central marketThe warm welcoming interior of Wahaca covent garden

Inspiring young lives

Our charity partner in Mexico is EDNICA, a UNESCO backed charity supporting children whose parents live and work on the street. So far we have donated over £200,000 since 2012. 

Our donations help to educate children about nutrition, technology, morals and working together. The simple objective is to give them the opportunities their parents never got.

We aim to visit Ednica once a year and spend a few days getting to know the amazing children that our donations support. It is always an enriching experience for everyone, and means so much to us to be able to see how our donations are giving the children of Ednica a more enriched and fulfilling life.
Some of the Wahaca team visiting Ednica a charity we support in Mexico
Women cooking in Mexico

GIVING BACK

We are certified Carbon Neutral, we take lots of steps internally to be the best we can, but where we have unavoidable energy usage we offset this.  We choose our offsetting projects carefully, so that we not only give back to the planet, but it’s people too – in the country that gave us our inspiration, Mexico.

We support Improved Cookstoves a project which provides better stoves to families to reduce emissions and has a positive impact on physical and financial health too.

Another of our offsetting projects is a wind turbine farm which not only produces renewable energy, it runs activities with local communities – providing workshops, health screenings and reforestation programmes.
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FUELING THE NEXT GENERATION

We’re partnering with Chefs in Schools, to support the life-changing work they do. Kids are the future, let’s feed them like it. Tommi, our co-founder, has been a huge supporter of Chefs in Schools since day one and is an active supporter and Trustee.

Chefs in Schools is on a mission to transform kids’ health through food. Using a proven and affordable model, they recruit chefs and train school kitchen teams to make tasty, exciting meals that are packed with fresh, nutritious local produce that pupils enjoy. They help school chefs and their teams educate kids about food in the dining hall and in the classroom - inspiring and empowering others to follow their lead, with the vision that every child should have equal opportunity in school to develop a life-long love of nourishing food.

In England, 25% of kids are obese when they leave primary school. Rates of severe obesity are four times higher in areas of highest deprivation, than in better off neighbourhoods. Research is clear – if school food improves, obesity falls, children’s health and well being is better, and attainment, and behaviour improves. Chefs in Schools is working to ensure that every child in the UK leaves school with an adventurous palate, a sound grasp of nutrition, a love of real food and the kitchen skills they will need to feed themselves and their loved ones well for life. 

Chef and chef trainer from Chefs in schools with group of children sitting at a table with food
Guac on the gram
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