January Newsletter: To Live a Better Life – A Fully Customized Life Skill Training Chinese New Year is around the corner, and it has been 5 months since our 12th class batch of students joined us.  On top of a solid bakery training, Shanghai Young Bakers continues to teach some key

December Newsletter: Internships, a new journey for our students After 7 weeks’ intensive training of French bakery and pastry, in the middle of October, the 12th batch of students started a brand new stage of training, namely, SYB’s special “alternance” training concept, which is dedicated to putting into practice of

October Newsletter: The Story of Shanghai Young Bakers It has been 11 years since the foundation of Shanghai Young Bakers. By the support and help from partners, sponsors, volunteers, alumni, we have provided free French bakery training to marginalized Chinese youth amount to 312 people, helping them get rid of poverty

Looking For a Baker? Come to Shanghai Young Bakers’ Career Fair   As the 11th batch of  students are about to graduate, we will have our annual Shanghai Young Bakers Career Fair is going to commence on 15th July! The participants include current graduates who have just passed a one-year training consisted of two

Baker’s soft skills training   Time flies by, we are merely 3 months away from the 11th batch’s graduation ceremony. Young bakers, are you ready for that? Besides baking, what else have you learnt here? This year, with the generous support of InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), while teaching French baking courses, SYB is able to

Goodbye SYB, Hello SYB! Goodbye SYB 10 years ago, I wanted to have more purpose and meaning in my life. While looking for non-profit groups in Shanghai, I stumbled across Shanghai Young Bakers. The project had just started then, and there were only volunteers, but I was immediately attracted by their earnestness

SYB’s 10-year challenge And the two of them now high-profile training directors for large baking corporations (Wang Li at Lesaffre, Zhang Zhenghai at Wilmar) And a pastry class led by France-trained SYB graduate Wang Jingyi These smiles are thanks to you!!! Thanks to all of you for supporting Shanghai Young