Our cooperation with World Vision has been very important to us because it is while working with them that our model could be refined towards African entrepreneurs in 2016 (here) and in 2017 (here).
We met Mrs Joan Arwa back then and she has always been a fantastic colleague. Since 3 years now she is successfully running her solar bakery in Kisumu, Kenya (here). Not far from there, in Sego, she recently trained a great group supported by World Vision for the Noswet program.
The group members have known each other for years and are very appreciated in the community. As per their report: “The group has over 30 members and they chose 5 to be working in the bakery at all times. They open early morning and close late evening for 6 days of the week, each day they bake 25kgs of bread, scones and cakes."
“This community based group serves various clients ranging from bakery walk-in customers, to nearby retail shops, and schools who give orders in bulk.
“Being a long rainy season they have currently been substituting sunlight energy with charcoal backup as they continue serving clients. When there is sun, of course they make solar baking. They say they use both sources of energy to power the bakery. The group has been working on buying more baking tins to produce more.”
World Vision’s local staff highlights that the group makes profit everyday with the solar barking activity and invests in their development. The data collection will allow to quantify everything much better.
A nice inauguration day has been organized to support the new Sego solar bakery!
See also our newsletter presenting the project (here).
