Bakery
The main idea of the bakery project was to get young people off the street. The foundations for the bakery have been laid in August 2000; the buildings were completed five weeks later.
Supply chain as well as distribution policy and potential customers have been explored at the same time, so that by the beginning of the year 2001 the first breads left the oven. By now we are selling round 2000 breads in the sales room.
The aim of the project is to teach talented young people how to run a bakery, as their job prospects are rather bad due to the high unemployment.
At the beginning, teenagers delivered the breads on bikes from house to house; intermediately the bakery had owned a delivery truck, with which the hospital, schools and other buyers in the neighborhood, as well as some stores in the camps of the Kruger National Park were supplied. But it was shown that the selling in the sales room gains the highest profit.
The bakery is the economic pillar of the organization. With the sale of beverages, foodstuff and other consumer goods in the store further social projects can be realized.
The bakery goods are produced by 15 local workers that are paid above average like the six sales persons in the shop. The Leka Gape bakery is the only one of its kind and popular for the quality of its products.
Special thanks go to the German Ministry for International Cooperation and Development and the company Eskom, whose financial support has made this project possible.