Do you know what does “handicapped” mean? Paul Kronenberg, the co-founder and co-director of the Tibet-based NGO Braille Without Borders, will tell you about that. Read more...
On Saturday 18th February, SYB's baking centre w elcomed a very special kind of event: an all-in-one bakery class, charity fundraising and birthday party! Read more...
On behalf of the SYB students and the SYB team, we wish you and your family health, success and happiness in the Year of the Dragon! Read more...
Dear friends, December and its Christmas flavour saw SYB joining public events showing its new developments, mostly as now able to produce bread and cakes and generate some proceeds used to cover our education costs. Participation to the Christmas afternoon of the Cercle Francophone was an opportunity to reunite with long-time partner NGO Children of Madaifu, using Madaifu's charity apples to bake an original "Chausson aux pommes" (kind of apple danish) for sale as a Christmas cake.
Dear friends, SYB is proud to anoounce the opening of our public classes! This is a big step on the road towards sustainability! Individuals or groups are welcome to study one day with our teachers, and learn traditional breads and cakes recipes, specially designed so that you can easily make them at home. Thanks to our teachers' language skills, classes can be taught either in Chinese or French and English translation is available, to make these classes as interactive as possible, and a human experience using bread to exchange around our charity program.
This month marks a new step in our students' discovery of the bakery world; they began their internship at various international hotels. These internships offer an amazing opportunity to work at the best bakery departments in Shanghai!
For our 4th batch of students, the new school year started at an even faster pace than usual!
Our 21 students just on board, they immediately began intense bakery classes as well as Chinese pastry, Life skills and English classes, led by our brand new team of teachers: former graduates Zhang, Wang and Xiao for bakery, and Zhao Laoshi as social educator.
On the few blanks left, we took them to the Bund and to visit traditional bakeries in the French Concession.
New year, new goals! SYB is opening its public bakery/pastry classes to help us going on the adventure. Contact us to register!
SYB has been chosen by Two Cities Gallery as the beneficiary organization of this year’s Christmas party, so our young bakers are glad to invite you to come and pass a relaxing Saturday afternoon with some croissants - a festival entrée before your holidays back home.
Plus, the three students leaving for France next month for further bakery training are going to tell you their vision of a 6-month stay in l’Hexagone… by their vivid drawings!
I’m glad to announce that the publication of our monthly newsletter has been reactivated. In this issue, I would like to invite you to a briefing of major developments the project has achieved since 2010. On behalf of all young bakers, I would like to express our gratitude for your attention and support to SYB!
It’s been nearly four months that the Shanghai Young Bakers project has started. The first class is more than half the way. The 16 students have already done great progress and are all proud and excited to be part of the program.
Everyone has worked hard for April exams and has been impressed by the demonstration made by M. Pascal Tepper, French Master Baker (MOF), in Shanghai in May for the Bakery China Fair. The Master Baker, supporting the project since the beginning, agreed to spend a day of his trip to teach the students and share with them his passion for French Traditional Bakery.
It’s been more than a month since the start of the training. Shanghai Young Bakers is not just a project anymore, it became a reality!
The students are here, with classes every week-end on French bakery and an internship at the partners’ every day of the week. The tutors at each partner’s are doing the best they can to teach the students the art of Bakery and to make sure of their well-being.
Students love gathering on Saturdays and learn how to make bread, while discovering the mystery of ingredients. They’re all excited by their job and the content of the training.
When you live in a foreign country -far away from your hometown- everyday is an opportunity to learn from other people, and discover a culture very different than yours. It is obviously a challenge, but at the same time and more than anything a very rare chance to do something different in your life.
For me, everyone that is offered such an opportunity should be grateful for it, and ask himself one important question : what am I giving back ?
Wishing to help underprivileged children and spread the art of traditional bakery in China, the Shanghai Young Bakers team has been engaging for nearly a year their free time and energy to launch training in bakery for Chinese orphans.
