Bread Baking

Co-Ordinator: Mrs Mareldia Naidoo

The main aim of the Bakery Project is to train unemployed people in bread baking skills, thus contributing towards job creation and poverty alleviation. The Bakery has recently been revamped to meet the Health and Safety standards required to obtain a business license for the bakery.

New Business

We tendered for the Peninsula School Feeding contract and after much negotiation between Mr. Du Plessis of Peninsula School Feeding Association and Cafda, we were awarded the contract. A list of schools and the amount of loaves per school was issued to the co-ordinater. The areas include: Heathfield, Steenberg and Manenberg. Cafda delivers approximately seven hundred loaves of bread to the designated schools on Tuesdays and Fridays respectively.

Constraints

The increasing cost of flour is having a negative on effect on the bakery, in the sense that the bakery has to increase the bread price whenever flour increases. As a result some customers have decreased or cancelled their orders. Thus causing a decrease in our overall supply figures.

Training

Twenty people have been trained in Bread Baking Skills since April 2007 to December 2007. Five training sessions with a class of ten trainees per session have been scheduled for 2008. The course consists of four weeks intensive training at the Cafda Bakery and thereafter the candidates are placed at various bakeries for a period of one month. The trainees will then be evaluated and issued with a certificate.

Apart from the Bread Baking Training, the candidates also received Life Skills Training.

Employment of Trainees in the community

Fifty percent of the group has found employment at ‘Reach Out’ Bakery in Victoria Road, Grassy Park and at Delight Bakery in Buck Road, Lotus River.

For further information call Mareldia Naidoo 021 706 2050

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