Bakery on the Rise
Posted by Kaitlin Walter, Fellow
I’m currently working on a couple of fundraising projects. They are all very exciting, especially the Uta Bakery Team running in the Georgia Half-Marathon on March 29th. There are six girls on the team, and each girl has a personal fundraising goal of $10 per mile. We already have two girls who have donors that have agreed to match their total amount raised, and we can’t wait to run for social entrepreneurship! If you’d like to sponsor a mile or two (or even someone’s entire thirteen!), please donate on the bakery page and help us run for a purpose next month! The project is also consistently raising additional funds each month with the Spare Change for Social Change campaign.
When SMRC members travel to Uta in a couple of weeks, they’ll be getting a lot of important information for the project about its possibilities. The group will assess the Uta bakery as the Buffelshoek Trust established it, and then I’ll be able to keep directing the project in terms of how the money raised will go towards the bakery’s improvement and how it will help perpetuate an entrepreneurial spirit in Uta and the surrounding villages by setting a successful example.
I am trying to learn everything that I can about micro-enterprise and micro-finance right now, in the goal of having a solid enough understanding by June of how a small business is run to make the project as successful as possible. I’m also working at a small bakery here in Atlanta to see first-hand how a small business is effectively run.
What ideas do you have in mind?
