by Alan Murphy | Jul 18, 2017 | Discover Stories
As the current class of 2016-17 gets ready to finish the last few weeks of their course, we can bring you some great news about expansion plans for the bakery school. Volunteer Sri Lanka, our project partners, are making plans to start two new streams of students in...
by Alan Murphy | Mar 13, 2018 | Discover Stories
Times are very tough at our project at Tikondane in eastern Zambia. This is due to sharply increased food and petrol prices, drought conditions and less revenue for Tiko (at a time when investment is especially important to achieve their goal of financial...
by Alan Murphy | Mar 12, 2018 | Discover Stories
At our bakery school in Sri Lanka, the 2017-18 class of girls have all graduated (the 7th batch of graduates to do so, since we began in 2014). Half of the class did exceptionally well in both the final oral and practical exam, with average marks of more than 90%. We...
by Alan Murphy | Jan 9, 2018 | Discover Stories
RoundTrip was able to send $5000 to our project at Tikondane in Zambia over the December-January period thanks in large part to the generosity of people who donated to our Xmas Appeal. The money was spent on seeds for new season crops, food supplies over Christmas,...
by Alan Murphy | May 4, 2018 | Discover Stories
Our eighth ‘batch’ of bakery students have settled in well and have now completed the first seven weeks of their studies at the Sri Lankan bakery school, having begun the course in early March. During the second week the group were fortunate enough to attend a...
by Alan Murphy | Dec 4, 2017 | Discover Stories
Excellent progress has been made by the students in the last three months (September – November 2017) – for example they have learnt how to make a variety of tarts, flans, cookies and biscuits from basic recipes. The girls learn the required skills, and...
