There are thousands of effective non-profit organizations that serve a humanitarian purpose. While we love what they’re doing in providing food, clothing, shelter and other essentials, we also want to take EGBOK Mission a step further and improve that cycle of give and take. Our mission is to address the underlying problems in the communities we serve by teaching and empowering people with skills so that they can support themselves with food, clothing, shelter and other essential needs.

That empowerment begins with fundamentals: encouragement, self-confidence, and showing young people their potential. We like to focus on the simple things service does: Hosting a guest. Making someone feel welcome. Making others smile. Those actions can come naturally, but we stress how heartfelt service makes them happen.

Why Hospitality

Hospitality is a natural fit for launching EGBOK Mission students into lives of independence. It stresses the basics of friendliness, caring and serving others, reaching across the world and beyond cultural barriers, acting as a universal language that everyone understands.

We feel that hospitality is an ideal avenue for students to understand and embrace where they come from, and share their enjoyment with others. This promotes leadership within organizations and communities where EGBOK Mission works. Hospitality offers a wealth of rewarding, self-sustaining careers that rely on good work environments and positive life skills that will benefit young people professionally and personally. Service careers lead to future independence while still being based on innate qualities of compassion, kindness, selflessness. After all, hospitality is providing care to whomever is in need, in a generous and friendly way.

EGBOK Mission provides the skills and transition necessary to connect eager students with their future potential as hospitality professionals. We prepare them to live in the world, to approach it with perspective, and above all, to support themselves and those around them through hospitality.

Why developing countries?

Young adults in developing countries across the globe often lack the educational and vocational opportunities they need in order to fuel the hospitality sectors of their economies. This forces many hospitality businesses in developing countries to hire qualified personnel from more developed countries, taking job opportunities away from the local community.

Our Goals

Our goal is simple: empower young adults so they can lead independent lives with financial stability. We recognize the potential of the students to support themselves as well as their future families through a solid foundation of education and training. We aim to help them gain independence as skilled, well-rounded individuals and equip them for success as leaders in hospitality.

Employment is essential, but in order to get there, we have to track student performance and motivation to know which next steps are best for each student. Rather than encouraging a single course of success, we cater to the individuals and their needs. We usually see this going one of three ways: Internship to job; vocational school to job; or university to job. Some students are passionate about continuing their learning while others are ready to launch into an internship or more professional training.

We encourage these three different paths to employment, understanding that each young person EGBOK Mission assists will have different goals and needs, and there are different ways to go about accomplishing these goals.