About Us

Mr. M. Mahadevan,
Entrepreneur and founder of Hot Breads, worldwide who has established restaurants and bakeries around 16 countries.

About Chennai Mission
Chennai Mission is a Charity Organization and the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) wing of M/s. Oriental Cuisines Pvt. Ltd. India. Now, Oriental Cuisines owns a total of 46 units in India and more than 60 units abroad, to learn more View Website: www.orientalgroup.in

Objectives:
1. Empowering the underprivileged and skilled Youth to live life the unpretentious way
2. Provide Merit Scholarships for deserving candidates ranging from Corporation Schools all the way up to Graduation and Post-Graduation courses.
3. Joining with NGO’s and setting up a chain of Bakeries and Patisseries. Thereby, employing and empowering the youths with culinary skills. The subsequent profits from these institutions are further invested back for successive charity activities of the NGO’s.

Chennai Mission Assisted Units:

Kaapi Kadai Bakery & Cafe

From now, No 300, Purasawalkam High Road, Kellys, would not only house the Government Observation Home, but would also sell bakery products prepared by scores of children residing there.

Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi on Saturday inaugurated the Kaapi Kadai Bakery and Coffee shop, aptly christened Kaapi Kadai, while Manoj Kumar Sonthalia, chairman and MD of The New Indian Express, received the first product.

A novel initiative by the Department of Social Defence with the support of Chennai Mission, the Corporate Social Responsiblity (CSR) Unit of Oriental Cuisines Pvt. Ltd. ( www.orientalgroup.in ) the Home inmates are being trained to make bakery products.

Banyan, a NGO working for mentally-ill destitute women, would jointly run the coffee shop and train the children in selling the products. While the government has invested Rs 9 lakh towards building works and training equipment, Chennai Mission has so far contributed Rs 6 lakh.

Initially, 20 children would be trained and Rs 1,500 paid as stipend every month during the training period. Children showed interest in learning the nuances of preparing bakery items, said Oriental Cuisines director M Mahadevan. “The inmates preferred to stay in the observation home for training, despite being granted bail,” he noted and added, “Job placements will also be arranged for them.” Bakery products, including cakes, doughnuts, pastas, sandwiches, vegetable puffs, are sold at nominal prices.

Winners Bakery & Confectionary

A unit of Foundation for vocational training, a corner-stone initiative by the Chennai Corporation, Chennai Mission and Rotary Club of Madras (East). The Group has successfully kicked-off an emulation to train the underprivileged candidates to work within the environs of a modern bakery with the finest of equipments. Over a hundred students have successfully completed the course and have been placed in reputable organizations.

Give-Life Café

Give Life Café, an enterprising effort, a small contribution to the society at large by Loyola College in association with Chennai Mission. An organization which works within a revolutionized framework of habituating the underprivileged youth to work the Barista way. This enthusiastic effort pays these students a handsome salary which in turn pays for their tuition, apart from the colossal profits which are further invested back into the program.

Freedom
If the art of living a steadfast lifestyle has only been an aspiration for a convict, its time people became cognizant of the fact that it has begun to encrust the lives of a few deserving inmates of the Puzhal Prison. This project helps inmates to earn and equip themselves in the professional skill of baking, enabling them to be gainfully employed once they are released from the prison. This unpretentious effort by Chennai Mission in association with a few like-minded organizations such as Banyan, The Spastic Society and Little Drops feeds close to 10,000 underprivileged children.