Alex’s Ratang Bana Future for Children on road to self-sufficiency

Ratang Bana Future for Children NPO has launched a bakery project that it hopes will help to secure a sustainable cash flow for the organisation and also plough back some of the money it makes into the community of Alexandra.

The organisation has since its formation in 2009 had many programmes launched under its wing, one of them being food gardening, whereby the elderly and orphans are fed from. On 29 May the organisation officially launched its bakery named Ratang Bana Mama Bakery.

The bakery is the brainchild of Ingrid Maredi who is the project manager for Ratang Bana Future for Children, and in launching the bakery she hopes to keep the organisation floating and also create more job opportunities.

“I am so grateful toward Alexandra NGO foundation and all of our donors for the help they’ve offered in making this bakery a success, and also how can I forget the lovely community members of Alex who showed support throughout the launch,” Maredi said.

The bakery will help in baking and selling bread and pizza, the distribution of bread products and the establishment of the base for Ratang Mama Restaurant and Ratang Mama Kota which are also under the wing of the organisation.

On the day of the launch at Ratang Bana Future for Children facility at Eastbank, stallholders were invited to sell their goods as most of the stalls do not make enough profit.

Maredi said the bakery will open opportunities for most of the volunteers in the facility, “There are people who come to Ratang Bana to do voluntary work, now they will be working at the bakery while earning something for their pockets.”

Speaking to Alex News, Maredi highly encouraged individuals and interests groups such as churches and companies to adopt families so that they can buy bread for them.
“We will give families coupons according to the size of the family,” she concluded.