5月6日，法国农业及食品监管部长纪尧姆·加洛先生(Guillaume Garot)一行参观了青焙坊的烘焙中心，与青焙坊师生交流了培训学习及项目运营情况，之后代表团与青焙坊共进午餐。青焙坊还特别邀请了法国驻上海总领事馆及企业赞助商伙伴参与交流。
项目经理林兰介绍了海上清焙坊的由来及现状，并感谢所有为帮助过我们的的赞助商，包括我们的主要赞助商家乐福，自项目成立之初便开始赞助；标致雪铁龙集团基金会负责了师生的交通费用；以及为我们提供免费服务及原料的合作伙伴们，如上海法语培训中心，巴黎大磨坊，兰特莱斯，乐斯福和斯诺迪斯。林兰也对我们的新赞助商雅高集团表示欢迎，他们将负责烘焙中心的相关费用。
家乐福集团副总裁、家乐福中国区总裁唐嘉年(Thierry GARNIER)先生表示：“在家乐福，我们努力担负起作为优秀企业公民的所有社会责任。我们希望通过赞助海上青焙坊项目，帮助贫困青少年们自立健康成长，并学以致用，回馈社会。同时，我们希望培养出更多优秀的中国烘焙师，为中国消费者带来更优质的食品和服务。”
此次午餐访问中，加罗部长与青焙坊培训师亲切交谈，询问他们在传递法式烘焙的过程中遇到的挑战。烘焙师们也曾是青焙坊的学生，在法国接受培训后回国任教。加罗部长鼓励他们坚持梦想，实现目标。正如他在之前的演讲中所说，“我喜欢与年轻人交谈，喜欢与这些年轻的学员、将来的烘焙师交谈。他们将成为沟通中法友谊的桥梁，因为他们融汇了我们两国文化中很美好的部分。感谢你们，感谢你们为建立更团结、更友好的未来所做出的努力！”
感谢加罗部长及赞助商们的出席！青焙坊非常荣幸能与这么多关注社会责任的企业共聚。
On May 6th, French Minister for Food Guillaume Garot made a stop on his official China tour to visit Shanghai Young Bakers. During the visit, SYB shared its training and operating experience and had a buffet lunch with the delegation. Also, SYB had invited the French Consulate General and its sponsors to attend.
Program manager Floriane presented SYB to the guests, and took this opportunity to thank all the sponsors that have contributed to the success of the program: Carrefour Foundation of course, as the main sponsor of SYB since its inception, PSA Peugeot Citroën Foundation, which funds the mobility expenses of the program, and in-kind sponsors that graciously provide SYB with free services and products, among which are Alliance Française, GrandsMoulins de Paris, Lactalis, Lesaffre and Sinodis. Floriane was also proud to welcome Accor Foundation as a new sponsor of the program. Accor Foundation will support the expenses related to SYB baking center.
Thierry Garnier, chairman and CEO of Carrefour China, said: “Carrefour is willing to take its corporate social responsibility. We hope to help underprivileged young people grow up healthily and independently by funding Shanghai Young Bakers. Meanwhile, we hope to train more excellent Chinese bakers, who will bring quality food and services to Chinese consumers.”
During the informal, homemade French-style lunch, Mr. Garot spoke with the SYB teachers – former SYB students who were later trained in France – about their challenges and dreams when passing on their newly-found love for traditional French bread and pastries in China. He encouraged them to carry on their dreams and to realize their goals, just as he said in his speech, “I would like to talk to the youth, the young trainees and future bakers, to tell them that they will become the ambassadors of the friendship between France and China, of the friendship between our two nations, because they are now going to be able to blend the best of our two cultures. Thank you, because you are building a future that we hope to be more united, more fraternal.”
Thank you to Mr. Garot and our sponsors for having honored us with their presence! It is remarkable indeed to see so many social-minded companies come together to support the young bakers!