SYB best students, teachers and staff at Amity Bakery
SYB best students, teachers and staff at Xuanwu Lake, Nanjing
Building a network of social bakeries: SYB Students visit Amity Bakery in Nanjing
Opening a social café co-run by SYB graduates has always been Shanghai Young Bakers’ long-term ambition. We hope that this social café will help fund our training program and provide a space for all social-minded individuals to share and exchange. Meanwhile, SYB hopes to create synergy among baking trainings or social bakeries by sharing resources and ideas. Pursuing this kind of dream and mission, SYB best students, teachers and team visited Amity Bakery in Nanjing on July 21st.
Amity Bakery is the first social enterprise for mentally handicapped people in China. It is affiliated to Amity Foundation, providing mentally challenged people with career training and job opportunities. With an online store on Taobao.com, Amity Bakery has already opened three stores in the city center of Nanjing. On July 21st, the best 5th batch graduates, SYB teachers and staff, accompanied by Amity Bakery staff, visited their store near XinJieKou first. We were showed around their store, served with their hand-made biscuits, including raspberry cookies and rose cookies, and also listened to the introduction and future development plan of Amity Bakery. The staff at Amity Bakery told us that for the time being, there are nine mentally disabled people working at their factory. When these people first came to Amity Bakery, they were really impatient and not easy to get along with. However, after a few months’ training, they were able to follow the steps of making biscuits as well as helping their families with housework. SYB students and teachers were impressed by their changes and curious about the operation model of Amity Bakery. From our conversation, we got to know that nowadays online marketing is the main source of revenue of Amity Bakery, and that since last year, they also make profit from their stores in Nanjing, which is a good example of a successful social enterprise!
Aside from Amity Bakery, SYB students also visited two famous French bakeries in Nanjing.
In the afternoon, SYB students went to visit Xuanwu Lake Park. It was summer there so the lake was full of greenish lotus leaf and reddish lotus. Dew could be seen on the lotus leaf. Students were so pleased with the scenery that they took a lot of pictures beside the lake. Unfortunately, it suddenly rained cats and dogs, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled. Although our trip was affected by the bad weather, graduates were still in high spirits. They jumped into the paddles and had a lot of fun with water. Jinjin Xiao, our pastry trainer, even commented that it reminded her of her childhood.
After a delicious and Nanjing traditional dinner, students left for Shanghai. Floriane Lemoine, the program manager and Zhenghai Zhang, one of SYB bakery trainers then headed for Zhengzhou to recruit the 6th batch of students.
Sophie, SYB Communication Coordinator
与社会型面包坊建立关系：海上青焙坊参观南京爱德面包坊
与海上青焙坊的毕业生们合作，经营一家社会型咖啡馆一直是海上青焙坊的长期目标。我们希望这家社会型咖啡馆可以帮助我们的项目筹款，并为热心于社会福利的人们提供分享以及交流的空间。与此同时，海上青焙坊希望通过分享资源和创意，在烘焙训练与社会型面包坊之间创造协同效应。
爱德面包坊是中国第一家为智障人士服务的社会型企业。它隶属于爱德基金会，为智障人士提供职业训练和工作机会。爱德面包坊目前已经在南京的市中心开了三家实体店铺，并在淘宝网上开设了网上面包坊。7月21日，海上青焙坊第五批优秀毕业生、老师和工作人员，在爱德面包坊员工的陪伴下，首先参观了位于新街口附近的一家爱德面包坊门店。我们参观了店铺，并品尝了爱德面包坊制作的包括覆盆子味、玫瑰味在内的手工饼干，并聆听了爱德面包坊的介绍和他们未来的发展规划。爱德面包坊的工作人员告诉我们，目前，有9位智障人士在爱德面包坊的工厂工作。当这些人第一次来爱德面包坊的时候，他们非常没有耐心，不善于与人相处。但是，在经历了几个月的训练之后，他们可以按步骤制作饼干，并帮助家人做家务。这些改变给海上青焙坊的学生和老师留下了深刻印象，他们对爱德面包坊的运作模式感到好奇。交谈中，我们了解到，目前，在线销售是爱德面包坊收入的主要来源。从去年开始，他们也通过南京的门店获益。爱德面包坊是社会企业的成功典范！
除了爱德面包坊，海上青焙坊的学生们同样参观了南京其他两家著名的法式面包房。
下午，海上青焙坊的学生们游玩了玄武湖公园。正值夏季，湖中“接天莲叶无穷碧，映日荷花别样红”。荷叶上露水颗颗。看到此情此景，学生们都十分开心，在湖边拍下了很多照片。遗憾的是，当天南京突然下起了暴雨，电闪雷鸣。尽管我们的行程受到了天气的影响，毕业生们依然情绪高涨。他们跳进小水塘中玩起水来。西点培训师肖金金甚至说那让她回想起了童年。
在一顿美味的南京传统晚餐后，学生们返回上海。项目经理林兰和海上青焙坊的培训师之一——张政海前往郑州，招募我们的第六批学员。
宋昱，联络沟通