KCCA Offers 20 Scholarships to Students Who Have Lost a Sole Earning Member to Covid

PANAJI:
Many earning family members, in some cases the sole family member, have succumbed to Covid in recent times leaving the family to deal with the loss of a loved one as well as the financial crunch which follows. Verna based Kamaxi College of Culinary Arts (KCCA) is offering 20 such students a full scholarship to the Integrated Cruise Culinary Programmes (ICCP).

“Covid has had an adverse impact on the learning and development milestones of students. We believe that it’s important to keep passion and education going through the pandemic. In an effort to support students, we at KCCA have constituted these scholarships which can be availed by students who have lost the sole earning member in their family to Covid, ” explained Parixit Pai Fondekar, Chairman, KCCA.

As one of the fastest-growing leisure travel sectors, cruising is expected to make a strong comeback especially in the US and Europe following the pandemic. This is welcome news to the large number of Goan youth employed onboard luxury cruise vessels.

Kamaxi College of Culinary Arts’ Integrated Cruise Culinary Programmes (ICCP) offers professionals the option to learn to be a cruise culinary chef and upgrade their skills in a bid to seek employment in this industry.

Aimed at getting individuals ready for a career onboard a luxury cruise ship, the ICCP curriculum is focused on practical skills and developing confidence so that recruits can hit the ground running.

Unlike other institutes, KCCA trains students for a specific job profile, as opposed to an all-round course offering the basics. This ensures that the student walks out of the institute ready to be employed in the position they have been trained for. The programme is spread over a year with six months of virtual or classroom training followed by six months of industrial experience.

Kamaxi’s cruise partners include Virgin Voyages, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Oceania Cruises, Viking Cruises, Marella Cruises, Norwegain Cruise Line and Cordelia Cruises.

Individuals between 16 and 27 years, with Class 10 educational qualification and above are eligible to join the programme.

Margao based ACCLA has recently rebranded itself into KCCA. Designed by experts from the cruise industry, the ICCP Programmes in Hot Galley and Bakery & Pastry, initiated in 2013 has trained a score of students who have found employment with some of the world’s most popular cruise companies.