BREADrev micro bakeries, in partnership with A Reaching Hand and UNISA, gather nine students daily to learn all they can about baking bread.
This project is an example of strength in collaboration. A Reaching Hand runs the Orange IQ Nutrition and Learning Kitchen, which currently feeds 1000 people per week. Their vision is to ‘bring release and not relief’ and to empower the local community beyond feeding them. BREADrev’s mobile bakery school was the perfect synergy. The volunteers in the Nutrition Kitchen are trained to be bakers and then will be enabled to set up a BREADshop on the site.
Councillor Vuyokazi Matanzima arrived unannounced on the first day of bread production and bought the first loaf out the oven. The students were extremely excited to be selling their bread already. There are classes in marketing and sales to help them with selling the bread.
Cllr Vuyokazi Matanzima
“The collaboration extends, UNISA is A Reaching Hand’s education partner, so our bakery school fits snugly, with UNISA intending to turn our material into an accredited programme”, reports Kim Barty.
“It extends further – Pollsmoor is also a partner of A Reaching Hand. Pollsmoor plans to offer the mobile baking school and the BREADshop package to inmates who will be going on parole in 2014. We have our first parolee on this baking school as a pilot. Pollsmoor is also currently making two of our prototype ovens, as a tester to see if inmates would be able to be one of our manufacturing arms”.
BREADrev is about job creation, social enterprise, environmental sustainability, health and nutrition.
