Spread the word
Passing the word along helps immediately, and it counts: documenting public information work between Switzerland and Senegal is one of the things Geneva’s public funders look at.
Support
What is possible today, and what will open later
Donations are not open yet. But several things really do help, starting now.
Did a bottle bring you here?
Then you have already done something. The bissap and the ginger juice are sold in Geneva for the benefit of this project: every bottle goes towards training young bakers in Kaolack. Drinking it, giving it, talking about it: all of that helps, and all of it is possible today.
Where these bottles come from
They are made in Geneva, by the project’s bakers
Bissap is a hibiscus infusion, drunk all over Senegal. Here it is brewed, bottled and labelled in a Geneva bakehouse, then sold to fund the training in Kaolack.
The range has four drinks: red bissap, ginger bissap, ginger juice and white bissap. Every label carries a QR code that leads to this page. That is the route this site was built to be found by.
No fundraising in progress
This site has no payment facility and displays no bank details. Any request for money made in this project’s name today would not be coming from us.
Starting now
Four ways to help without giving a franc
Bring a skill
Baking, vocational training, agronomy, logistics, translation, bookkeeping for associations, photography and video: volunteers with these skills are wanted now, in Geneva and in Kaolack alike.
Tell us about equipment
Bakery equipment that still works and is headed for the skip: mixers, ovens, proofing cabinets, sheeters. Reusing it is a large part of the project.
Put us in touch
Foundations, municipalities, businesses in the trade, vocational schools, diaspora associations: any useful introduction is welcome.
What the equipment we are after looks like
These are two spiral mixers. It is the kind of machine a bakery replaces every fifteen or twenty years, and that gets scrapped while still in working order.
An oven, a proofing cabinet, a sheeter, a planetary mixer, a dough divider: if you come across one looking for a second life, let us know. This kind of gift weighs more than it looks. Equipment is the item the project has the hardest time funding.
Transparency
How the project is funded
The funding combines several sources: the contribution of the Kaolack Departmental Council, which provides the land and part of the money; Geneva public grants; private foundations; donations; and contributions in kind, above all the reused bakery equipment.
The amounts are not published at this stage. The budget is being built on real quotes, and announcing it before it is settled would tell you nothing.
The project’s accounts will be made public at the end of each financial year.