Let's Send Tareq to Culinary School
Let's Send Tareq to Culinary School
UPDATE :: Tareq is now on the full path to begin receiving his culinary education. Many difficult steps are ahead, but we feel GREAT about his future! STAY TUNED!
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Tareq is friends with Daniel Ross - a trusted HopeMob team member (pictured together - Tareq is on the left).
Growing up in Bangladesh Tareq's number one goal in life was to go to college. So his family borrowed money from the loan sharks by offering their small piece of land they had in order to send him to Malaysia to go to university. The agent that handles students assured him it would be a good university.
Tareq had never left his country before and when he arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he was excited about his future. That is until he passed through immigration - only to get his passport back and find out that instead of getting a student visa for a local university inside of his passport he received a working permit for Pizza Hut. His agent demanded his passport back and said he had no option but to work at Pizza Hut at this point. He was cheated and because he was in a new country he was afraid and had no one to turn to.
So Tareq showed up to work at Pizza Hut and tried to have a good attitude. Then he noticed how the managers began to treat the workers and they were especially abusive to the Nepalese workers. He stood up for them since their treatment was abusive and wrong only to find out upon returning to his apartment that night that the managers had stolen everything in his apartment. He quit Pizza Hut and called his agent who demanded that he pay him at least $1000 USD in order to get his passport back. He borrowed from friends to get the money so he could at least get another job somewhere but when he got his passport back it was a fake passport as his real one had already been sold on the black market.
As people who had come to know and love Tareq heard about his story they decided to help him pay the immigration and attorney fees to return home. He has now been back in Bangladesh for almost two years and his family has disowned him. Even though his family disowned him he decided to pay back the money they had initially paid for him to go to university in Malaysia. He is now volunteering as a translator for tourists and teams that come to do community development in Bangladesh. He has a very small amount of income coming in.
Over the past year he has been applying to chef schools in Australia and Thailand but because he is from Bangladesh and does not have family it is very difficult to get a visa to leave the country. He has been rejected three times already.
His dream is to become a professional chef and have his own restaurant one day. He has done a few courses and worked as a chef already but most of what he has learned has been self taught.
As always, we do not provide direct cash aid to those featured in our stories, but every dollar we raise will go toward the costs of culinary school for Tareq.
Also, we want to rally the ENTIRE HopeMob community to reach out to every culinary school and chef of influence to share this story with them!
Let's GO HopeMob!
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Tareq is friends with Daniel Ross - a trusted HopeMob team member (pictured together - Tareq is on the left).
Growing up in Bangladesh Tareq's number one goal in life was to go to college. So his family borrowed money from the loan sharks by offering their small piece of land they had in order to send him to Malaysia to go to university. The agent that handles students assured him it would be a good university.
Tareq had never left his country before and when he arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he was excited about his future. That is until he passed through immigration - only to get his passport back and find out that instead of getting a student visa for a local university inside of his passport he received a working permit for Pizza Hut. His agent demanded his passport back and said he had no option but to work at Pizza Hut at this point. He was cheated and because he was in a new country he was afraid and had no one to turn to.
So Tareq showed up to work at Pizza Hut and tried to have a good attitude. Then he noticed how the managers began to treat the workers and they were especially abusive to the Nepalese workers. He stood up for them since their treatment was abusive and wrong only to find out upon returning to his apartment that night that the managers had stolen everything in his apartment. He quit Pizza Hut and called his agent who demanded that he pay him at least $1000 USD in order to get his passport back. He borrowed from friends to get the money so he could at least get another job somewhere but when he got his passport back it was a fake passport as his real one had already been sold on the black market.
As people who had come to know and love Tareq heard about his story they decided to help him pay the immigration and attorney fees to return home. He has now been back in Bangladesh for almost two years and his family has disowned him. Even though his family disowned him he decided to pay back the money they had initially paid for him to go to university in Malaysia. He is now volunteering as a translator for tourists and teams that come to do community development in Bangladesh. He has a very small amount of income coming in.
Over the past year he has been applying to chef schools in Australia and Thailand but because he is from Bangladesh and does not have family it is very difficult to get a visa to leave the country. He has been rejected three times already.
His dream is to become a professional chef and have his own restaurant one day. He has done a few courses and worked as a chef already but most of what he has learned has been self taught.
As always, we do not provide direct cash aid to those featured in our stories, but every dollar we raise will go toward the costs of culinary school for Tareq.
Also, we want to rally the ENTIRE HopeMob community to reach out to every culinary school and chef of influence to share this story with them!
Let's GO HopeMob!
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