The dates have been set! We will be departing for Ghana Dec. 29 from New Orleans and arriving back in New Orleans Jan. 8. If you are not able to join us for this mission trip, please consider joining our meetings as we plan our fund raising project.
The next meeting will be Monday Aug. 18 at 7p.m. in the St. Thomas Conference Room upstairs above the Parish Offices at 3117 West 4th St. across from USM in Hattiesburg.
We hope to be able to build a bakery in Fr. Charles' local town. A rough estimate for the materials necessary to build the bakery is $8000. Fr. Charles already has an industrial mixer for the bakery.
This will be an innovative project in that it will teach the local ladies a skill that they can take back to their villages and use to earn a living. The resources available in each village would determine the type of oven used in the village bakery once the individual lady from the village has learned to bake. The types of ovens available use residual heat from wood, charcoal, gas, and electricity. Each of theses types of oven will be available at the training bakery.
Then each lady from the various villages can go back and have an oven built. Then while she bakes, she can hire others to help her with sales and other duties associated with the bakery in her village.
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