8th shortlisted entrepreneur - Victoria MacKechnie, Kids in the Kitchen

Here is some info on our penultimate shortlisted entrepreneur - Victoria MacKechnie:

One in four Irish children, between the ages of 5 and 17, is overweight or obese but teaching children how to cook healthy meals has been shown to impact greatly on their diets. In 2008, Victoria Mackechnie set up Kids in the Kitchen to teach children how to cook healthy meals for themselves. Kids in the Kitchen is about giving kids a skill for life.

According to Victoria, ‘It’s the tactile, creative process involved in cooking that appeals so much to children’. Less than two years later, Victoria now works with 11 primary schools in Dublin and has taught over 350 children how to cook. She hopes to continue rolling these courses out to specifically target children in DEIS primary schools throughout Ireland.

Victoria was a finalist in the Young Entrepreneurs Competition at the age of 15 and lives in Ringsend, Dublin. www.kidsinthekitchen.ie