Pastries for the sweet soul

OUR SPECIALTY:

Homebaked cakes, muffins, cookies and fruit tarts from $2 onwards.

THE INNOVATION:

The bakery provides training and resources for needy jobseekers especially single mothers to make cakes and other pastries at a kitchen within Bukit Panjang Community Club, which will be later sold at various town centres as well as pushcarts at places like Ikea. Beneficiaries earn an income on commission basis by selling the Community Kitchen pastries.

BRIEF BACKGROUND:

With $140,000 seed funding from the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS)’s ComCare Enterprise Fund (CEF), the pastry business was set up in 2006 and aims to create jobs for women from disadvantaged families, especially from the Malay community, which then allow them to help themselves. The idea was suggested by Dr Teo Ho Pin, MP for Bukit Panjang and Mayor of Northwest CDC, and was tested on a smaller scale at the Al-Iman Mosque a year before the bigger and official set up at Bukit Panjang.

The Community Kitchen also offers catering services. Its clients include MCYS, the Town Council, North West CDC and other non-governmental bodies.

“Seeing the ladies give it their all makes me seriously consider expanding this project for the community at large. With more funds, we can extend a helping hand to more needy people.”
- Mr George Chia, Project Coordinator of the Community Kitchen

Contact details:

Tel: 9662 9095
Email: paiman@muis.gov.sg

Address:

8 Pending Road
Singapore (678295)

Tags: cafe, Food

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