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Honduras
SimplyHelp has started planning and strategizing for a proposed Vocational Training program to teach Hondurans the craft of baking.

Our Baking Schools have been highly successful with high numbers of students going on to find gainful employment or to start their own bakery storefronts. Due to the relative low cost of overhead and the constant demand for nutrition in third world countries, our baking programs continue to provide solid, tangible benefits to the communities they serve.

The proposed program in Honduras is unique in it that it will be based on a cooperative model with local elementary schools. Many schools in the poorest areas struggle to maintain an adequate supply of resources including nutrition. However, because schools often have unused spaces on their campuses, it provides the opportunity for a synergistic relationship with new graduates of the our baking programs who need spaced in order to start their own bakery businesses. In our model, candidates among our graduates will be offered the opportunity to use space at school campuses to start their businesses. In return, bakers participating in this program will provide a steady supply of baked goods for the school as part of an exchange program.

The budget for the construction, facilities and start-up costs for this project is currently set at $150,000 (USD).

Bakeries offer an affordable way for people to finally rise out of extreme poverty in some of the poorest regions on earth. Please consider supporting this project so that we may continue provide Salvadorans, Panamanians and now Hondurans a means to provide for their families.

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