ECFM, ACE Zone 3 provide training in bread making

East Caribbean Flour Mills (ECFM) teamed up with the Adult and Continuing Education Unit (ACE), Zone 3, to provide training in bread-making for 28 community residents.

ACE Zone 3, as part of its strategic initiative to enhance occupational skills in the Zone 3 area, has organized a three-month community based workshop in cake-making, decorating and bread-making.{{more}} The workshop, which is slated to culminate in August 2016, resonates under the Occupational Skills Training Segment of ACE Zone 3, and includes participants from various communities in the Marriaqua constituency.

The ECGC bread-making component was part of this initiative. ECGC provided baking consultant Ali Medjahed, of Sweety Pie Bakery in Mustique, to train the participants for two days (July 25 and 26), in the rudiments of breadmaking.

It was a team effort with Lanel Black, Quality Assurance officer of ECGC, assisting in the training exercise and the zonal coordinator of ACE Zone 3 Wanda Dasent, along with Girlyn Miguel, providing administrative support. The deputy

principal of St Joseph’s Convent Marriaqua, Jennifer Browne, graciously allowed ECGC the use of the school’s Home Economics facility.

“The ECGC continues to demonstrate its corporate responsibility in SVG, through the provision of quality training and technical support to bakeries and also to persons in rural areas. It is the hope of the company that the training will assist in stimulating further economic advances in the community, as participants are motivated to commence and continue in small enterprises that are concomitant with the baking industry,” a release from ECGC said.