Quito, Ecuador

At the women’s prison La Inca in Quito there is a disused bakery. Cuisine sans frontières’ project consists of rebuilding and it and making it functional. The bakery provides the inmates with basic training in the production of baked goods as well as the running of a small enterprise. After their release these skills help the women secure a living and reduce the risk of seeing them slip back into poverty and crime.

In addition to the training Csf supports the bakery in selling its products at organic markets and to restaurants in Quito.


Facts

Project activities: Setting up a bakery in the women’s prison La Inca, providing training to the inmates.
Project goals: Inmates are given a chance to find employment as bakers after their release.
Beneficiaries: Inmates of a women’s prison.
Running time: 2009 – 2010
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