We have many diverse and unique programs operating around the world.
Stay tuned for more information to come about them!
Again, our Crumbassador Breezy shares her experience for bringing peace and resolve conflicts through “the power of flour”, this time in Stormont. Read about this extraordinary journey here.
” The Bake Bread for Peace movement aims to bring people together in a celebration of everything communal and good through one of the most common and basic activities that humanity shares all over the world – baking bread. The movement was started in 2014 by Breezy Kelly and has now found enthusiasts across Ireland[…]
Adam Majewski who is one of the latest Crumbassadors to join our Bakers without Borders community just started a great campaign which aims at raising funds to organize community building baking programs in Twin Cities, Minnesota. The program will “create a beacon of hope, help develop future leaders in social change and improvement, and ensure[…]
Here is a selection of some of the bread works of Sue Beveridge (our “Baker Without Borders” from Scotland). They are either from her work in bread sculpture or through her work with groups working with bread dough as a type of art therapy. Bread Bodies – “I cast my body, fill it with bread dough, bake[…]
One of our Bakers Without Borders and year-long Crumbassador, Yana Doncheva, had a recent project employing the Bread Houses Network methods in Romania in July 2016. During the course of Stella Leadership Programme, conducted by British Exploring Society, recent graduates from universities across the UK participated in a socially significant community project in the region[…]
Helga Graef, a “Baker Without Borders” from Austria, has been very enthusiastic about the game “Bakers Without Borders” as a tool in her baking activities with various groups. As Helga shares: “The “Theater of Crumbs” opened the curtain with a group of women in a women’s shelter house in Salzburg. They liked it very much!”Helga[…]
Eva Bakkeslett from Norway organized in October the “Bread and Circus” cross cultural bread baking event with Kultivator, Ölands folkhögskola and wonderful people from Mölltorp asylum (refugee) camp in Sweden. “It was a fantastic fermenting with people from 7 different cultures and a lively bacterial community!”, shares Eva. It is beautiful to see how people[…]
Bread in the Guatemalan highlands – the Community Cloud Foundation’s Conservation By Rob and Tara Cahill, Directors of the Community Cloud Forest Conservation http://www.cloudforestconservation.org/ Lidia and Elvira are teachers at the Community Cloud Foundation’s Conservation in the Guatemalan central highlands. They are part of the WALC program, where they learned to bake during the fall[…]
Artist Simon Gray and a baker without borders is working with a diversity of ethnic and cultural groups across Porirua City to explore the symbolic and religious power of bread by sharing bread making techniques, customs and stories. The project invites bread makers and bread lovers to come together to develop a “Porirua Loaf”, one that reflects the diversity[…]
During the summer of 2014, I spent almost two months interning with the Bread Houses Network in Bulgaria. While there, I lived and volunteered in the original Bread House in Gabrovo, an incredible building that is more than a century old and filled with all sorts of treasures from around the world. One of the[…]