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A Pathway to Rizq
Across Ontario, newcomers, single parents, evacuees, and low-income families want to build stable careers in food but lack the certification, childcare, and transportation to get started.
Pathways to Rizq: Culinary Arts & Food Handling Program offers a 6-class journey with food-handling certification, hands-on culinary training, and faith-based business mentorship so participants can move from surviving to earning halal income.
Launched in 2025, three cohorts of this program have been run with a total of 31 participants. That’s 31 households transformed entirely.
Your gift can turn one classroom seat into a new source of rizq for another household.
From Struggle to Stability
For hundreds of families, this certificate can opens doors to restaurants, catering, and safe home-based food businesses. You can help someone turn their cooking skills into a way to provide for their family, putting meals on the table and hope in their home for generations to come.
19% wage gap: Mothers in one-parent families earn 19% less per hour than mothers in two-parent households.
(Statistics Canada)
40% single parents struggling: Nearly 40% of single-parent households struggle to cover basic needs, with many parents skipping meals so their children can eat.
(Salvation Army)
Under-employment: Newcomer and low-income women are often concentrated in low-wage or informal work because they lack access to training, language support, and childcare.
(Canadian Women’s Foundation)
How the Program Works
Food Handling
Ontario‑recognized training and exam for safe work in kitchens.
Culinary Skills
Hands-on classes led by MasterChef Canada finalist, Reem Ahmed.
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Mentorship
Guidance to start or grow halal food ventures.
Support
Childcare and transportation so no one misses a class.
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6 classes per cohort
From first knife skills to final exam.
10+ participants certified per cycle
stepping into dignified halal work.
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3 cohorts per year
reaching dozens of families in Mississauga and the GTA.
How You Can Help
Cover an Exam
$75
Cover the Food Handling Certificate exam for one participant, removing a key financial barrier so they can qualify for work in professional kitchens.
Equip a Future Chef
$130
Provide ingredients, basic tools, and a share of childcare and transportation support so a participant can fully take part in all six classes.
Sponsor an Entire Learning Journey
$900
Sponsor one participant’s full journey, including kitchen rental, ingredients, transportation, childcare, and the certification exam.
Who You’ll Be Helping
100% Local Zakat
Sadaqah Jariyah
Scholar Approved
Who You’ll Be Helping
Frequently Asked Questions
Your donations will be directed to Pahways to Rizq In the case of necessity funds will be directed towards supporting eligible beneficiaries as most urgently needed.
info@nzfcanada.com
115 Matheson Blvd W Unit 214, Mississauga, ON L5R 3L1, Canada
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