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April 05 2013 ISSUE 131
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HELP FOR 000 Primary school children will now have the benefit of an online computer game designed to educate them on how to correctly use the emergency number 000. The game is the brainchild of the Triple Zero Awareness Working Group and may even be included in the national school curriculum.
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NEW SPEED Paul Allam and David McGuinness, co-founders of the Bread and Butter Project. Inset: Some of their delicious, fresh made bread.
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Social enterprise bakery will teach refugees vital skills
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KATHERINE TWEED
he lives of refugees, forced to leave their homeland out of fear, struggling to integrate into a foreign society, can be described as nothing less than difficult but ‘Bread and Butter’ can change that. The Bread and Butter Project, launching this month out of a store in Fitzroy Street, Marrickville, is the fi rst social enterprise bakery in Australia, set to change the lives of struggling communities by training those in need to become future bakers.
Co-founder, Paul Allam of Bourke Street Bakery was fi rst empowered to develop the Bread and Butter Project after a trip to Mae Sot, a town on the border of Thailand and Burma, in 2011. It was there that he discovered how teaching refugees a skill like baking could benefit their lives, enabling them to fi nd steady employment in the future. “Some nuns in Mae Sot run an orphanage there in the town. A lot of the women there are unemployed... I taught some of the women there how to bake and I thought that this would be a good thing to start here,” he said. “It really is a struggle for refugees to fi nd work.
Every day people get a little nervous going for jobs and going to interviews, this would be incredibly difficult for someone in a new culture, speaking a foreign language... I saw this as a good opportunity to make a difference.” Professional bakers will take on refugees as paid trainees before the end of this month and from their Marrickville bakery, will create the fi nest in artisan, hand made loaves. All profits from the sale of the breads will go back into the business to fund the ongoing training. The project will be selling their loaves at the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park this weekend ahead of their official launch in April.
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