Project status: Call for action

Project title: Modern Bakery

President: Antoaneta Ivanova

Target Group: Young people with fewer opportunities from around the world

Number of people in the team : 3

Hours spent: 30 per week

Number of youth impacted: 10 per month

Project active: n/a

• Vocation training program for disadvantaged people in Central and Southeastern Europe

• The project Modern Bakery program enable vulnerable young people to be trained by experienced bakers and to get skills needed to become bakers and pastry chefs.

• Once they have completed the training program they are awarded a diploma and be able to apply on the job market

What is Modern Bakery?

What is Modern Bakery?

Goals and Objectives

• Create a program that will inspire young disadvantaged people worldwide to learn more about bakery and pastry as their potential future careers

• To free them from welfare dependency and set them on the path to employment and self-employment

• To improve young people’s key and life skills, provide them with self-confidence and self-esteem, thus encourage them be actively involved into the society

Who is it for?

• Young people aged 14-25 with basic school education or illiterate

• Disadvantaged young people that want to gain practice skills in bakery and pastry and increase their employability

• Bakeries and pastries that need skilled bakers• Companies that produce equipment for bakeries and

pastries • Government social centers that have responsibility to

provide opportunities for disadvantaged youth people.

Innovative aspects

• The idea is targeting the companies, government services and disadvantaged young people and unite them among one main issue

• The approach is “learn for live” where the young people are taught by experienced bakers and they are gaining the key skills needed for better life

• The learning-by-doing method is enabling everyone without any educational background to be included into the program

Transferability

• The Modern bakery idea could be replicable everywhere in the world, there is no geographically limitation

• The starting point for the program - partnership between the government, business and non-profit sector could be easily achieved even on the local level

• The program could be used to include all target groups of young people into the society, besides their gender, age, religion etc..

Team members:

Antoaneta Ivanova

Natasha Jancheva

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