by Alan Murphy | Jul 18, 2017 | Discover Stories
Our partner organisation in Zambia, Tikondane, recently held a trial fundraising campaign at Global Giving (globalgiving.org). The results were heartwarming. The campaign was very successful: their target was to raise $5000 and to have at least 50 donors – in...
by Alan Murphy | Sep 1, 2017 | Discover Stories
In August two major activities were running parallel at the bakery school: classes for the current seven-month semester bakery course a workshop for special needs girls, including those with Down syndrome, autism or a hearing impairment. The girls attending the...
by Alan Murphy | Oct 23, 2017 | Discover Stories
October is one of the harder months in the teaching structure, as students need to absorb a lot of learning and, importantly, demonstrate that they can maintain high quality standards in their baking. Some sessions in the past few weeks had to be extended, giving time...
by Alan Murphy | May 18, 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 | May 18, 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...
