PRODUCTION

SOLIDARITY HANDCRAFT

Product development, adding value and commercial links for individuals or groups of individuals from rural communities, with a view to valuing local culture and knowledge, thus creating opportunities for professional training, employment, self-employment, and diversifying sources of income for disadvantaged families.

Our approach is business-oriented and seeks to achieve positive results in ten intervention vectors, which we consider fundamental:

⭐ Improved interconnection between the different stages of the value chain of manufactured production;

⭐ Identification of business potential, associative management and entrepreneurship;

⭐ Rescue and cultural enhancement, literacy and non-formal education;

⭐ Promote vocational activities, as a way to train professionals and guarantee their social and economic integration;

⭐ Improvement of institutional identity and capacity, training of local artists, management of resources and production;

⭐ Reinforcement of the creative capacity, development, and/or improvement of the product, product identity, and image;

⭐ Commercial representation and facilitation of distribution channels;

⭐ Identification and facilitation of access to funding sources;

⭐ Identification and facilitation of Public/Private, Private/Private Partnerships and technical partnerships with institutions or individuals that can share know-how and/or the market;

⭐ Establishment of participatory management funds – actions of responsibility and economic and social sustainability.

SOLIDARITY BAKERY

This is an initiative designed to create opportunities for professional training, employment, and self-employment, and to diversify income sources for disadvantaged families.

The Solidarity Bakery is an economic activity for the autonomy and economic and financial sustainability of the Makobo Platform. It is also a complementary activity to the Solidary Soup and Solidary Lunchbox initiatives.

The approach is business-oriented and seeks to achieve positive results in six intervention vectors, which we consider fundamental:

⭐ Improvement of the financial capacity and sustainability of the Makobo Platform;

⭐ Ensuring support for the Solidarity Lunchbox – School Meals initiative;

⭐ Professional training and employability conditions for Sopa Solidária beneficiaries;

⭐ Promotion of local flour production (sweet potatoes, cassava, and corn);

⭐ Identification and facilitation of Public/Private, Private/Private Partnerships and technical partnerships with institutions or individuals that can share know-how and/or the market;

⭐ Establishment of participatory management funds – actions of responsibility and economic and social sustainability.