Cuinant Drets: Self-occupation to regularize and build a future in Mescladís Bostik

Cuinant Drets: Self-occupation to regularize and build future

Mescladís promotes "Cuinant Drets", an innovative project aimed at people in an irregular administrative situation who seek to regularize their situation through a real project of self-employment in the gastronomic field.

This program combines technical training in hospitality, legal support for foreigners and support in the field of entrepreneurship, generating real opportunities for access to rights, social inclusion and economic participation in the community.

The main objective of the program is to consolidate sustainable gastronomic micro-enterprises, led by trained and motivated people. Through this process, not only the generation of a real economic activity is promoted, but also the access to rights and administrative regularization, strengthening autonomous trajectories and community participation.

A comprehensive itinerary for entrepreneurship and regularization

The project offers a training and practical path that guides participants from the acquisition of basic cooking skills, cross-cutting skills and gastronomic management to the implementation of microenterprises with social and economic impact.

The phases include:

• Training in hospitality and transversal competencies, oriented to job placement and the development of technical skills.
• Legal orientation, focused on social settlement by own economic means, accompanying the preparation of regularization files for self-occupation.
• Project laboratory, where each participant designs his or her gastronomic proposal, analyzes its viability and develops a business plan in collaboration with specialized entities.
• Pilot community market, which allows the projects to be tested and made visible in real sales spaces, promoting the local economy and intercultural dialogue.
• Integral support for start-up, with economic mentoring, legal advice and connection with community networks, cooperatives and gastronomic circuits.
  

First women entrepreneurs in action

As part of this new stage, Cecilia Rosario Huane Salas and Lola Moreno, former students of the Cuinant Oportunitats program, begin the itinerary and implementation of their self-employment project in the gastronomic space of Mescladís Bostik.

Under the close accompaniment of Mescladís and specialized trainers, they are promoting their own business model that will be developed every week from Wednesday to Sunday from 10 am to 8 pm, offering a culinary proposal that reflects their backgrounds, knowledge and cultures.

This step marks an important milestone for the program, demonstrating how training, accompaniment and confidence in the capabilities of migrants can be translated into sustainable and rights-generating projects.

Cecilia tells us:

Mescladís is for me a family ♥️. This is how I felt since I was part of the great opportunity to be accepted as part of the training group and, above all, to do the two trainings I did there.

My time at Mescladís: I always felt supported by the trainers and the team. I learned in the best way: in practice and with the confidence they gave me from day 1 of the training.

I describe myself as a grateful person . I would say that I try to be responsible and organized.

Mescladís Bostik:
The challenge of getting it up and running is to have more freedom in decision making.

I hope, in this new stage, to give the best of me, to continue learning and to give everything to make it work, and to be able to prove to myself that I can achieve my goals.

Social and community impact

Cuinant Drets recognizes gastronomy as a universal language, a tool for inclusion and regularization. Each culinary project reflects diverse histories, cultures and trajectories, becoming an engine of inclusion and community cohesion.

With this initiative we seek to:

• Promote access to rights for migrants in an irregular situation.
  
• Promote sustainable gastronomic micro-enterprises.
  
• Strengthen community networks and generate decent employment.
  
• Submit applications for regularization through self-occupancy.
  
• To make visible the value of cultural diversity as a social and economic asset.
  

A replicable and transformative model

The proposal stems from more than 20 years of experience of Mescladís promoting opportunities for inclusion and employment through the hospitality industry. This project represents a step forward: broadening the regularization pathways, moving from contracting as an employee to self-employment as a tool for economic autonomy and regularization. With a comprehensive and community-based approach, it consolidates a scalable and adaptable model that strengthens entrepreneurial capacity and expands real opportunities for access to rights.

Visit Mescladís Bostik at Nau Bostik and learn more about this project!