Baking Project 101

Okay friends, here is a quick update on what we have been up to. The Aldea is a local orphanage here in Piura that the Help team made contact with last year towards the end of the summer. Located inside of the Aldea is a small panaderia.  A local baker volunteers at the orphanage a few times a week and produces bread for the orphans to eat.
 Here is our plan. We are trying to produce a sustainable bakery that will help contribute more money towards the orphanage and to the needs of a new oven. Although the panaderia is in good shape, the oven located inside is inefficient and in deteriorating condition. We have run the idea past the director and psychologist of the orphanage and they are more than willing to partner with us and allow for us to come into their territory. Tomorrow we are acquiring a vending license from the local municipality and are going to move forward from there. Our plan is to learn how to bake the bread with the orphans and then facilitate them making the bread early on and help with the selling.
We are setting up a program where the orphans can come in their spare time to help a local baker learn the trade of baking and help us in selling the bread. The money that the orphanage is planning on raising from selling the bread is not nearly enough for a new oven. It would take years for The Aldea to make enough in order to buy a new oven. That is where you come in. 
We are making a call for help. We want to help The Aldea raise the money for their new oven. With a new oven The Aldea will be able to produce more efficiently and will have one less thing off of their worry list. This week we plan on creating an Indiegogo account. Indiegogo will allow for all walks of people to be able to donate to our cause, and the money goes straight to the orphans. We are looking for several ideas on how we can fund raise and help The Aldea. If you have any suggestions please feel free to comment on this blog or to email our Help International team at peru@www.help-international.org
Thanks for all of your continued love and support to us here in Peru. We will make sure to keep everyone updated about our progress and will post our Indiegogo sight as soon as it is up and running. 


The Aldea Baking Project Team