In early 2026, a monsoon wiped out our oven, other equipment, and supplies. Since then, Knead to Feed has been ramping up to previous production levels. The team is here and the model works. With your help, we’ll be back and baking in no time.
In one of the world's largest refugee camps, our Difference Makers built a life-giving bakery.
Refugee entrepreneurs bake 12,000 loaves a month and earn more than a living wage doing it. Knead to Feed proves that community-led business works in a place most people assume it can’t.
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Verified by Candid. Between 75 and 90 cents of every dollar lands directly in the work.
It was always more than bread.
Founded under Honore Ebengo’s leadership, Knead to Feed has done what everybody said was impossible: a profitable refugee-run business in a refugee camp.
Knead to Feed has trained more than 100 students in baking and business — production, sales, customer relationships — and employs up to 12 staff at once at twice the living wage. In a settlement where aid has been cut and outside work is nearly impossible to find, a skill you can sell is a kind of freedom. And a paycheck you earn is a different kind of dignity than food you’re handed.
At full capacity, Knead to Feed produces 12,000 loaves a month. It feeds the settlement and pays its own people to do it.
It’s a business built and run by Difference Makers.
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What your gift does.
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Feeds the community. Feeds a family. A paycheck and a loaf of bread are the same.
The bakery running each week smoothly helps a refugee earn $80 a month, twice the living wage in the settlement. Your donations support the growth of Knead to Feed.
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Employees get paid twice the average wage. $80 a month. Twice the living wage.
At home, $80 is dinner out. In the settlement, it’s a full month of groceries, education, healthcare, shelter, and room to breathe. Bakery employees don’t just get by. They get ahead. That’s the exchange rate on your generosity.
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The skill outlasts the loaf.
More than 100 people have learned to run a business inside this bakery, not just how to bake. That’s the part that compounds. Leaders trained in business management here carry it into their communities, their families, their futures.
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This is what a sustainable solution looks like.
Knead to Feed reduces dependence on outside aid by creating income from within. The more it grows, the less the community needs to wait on any other food source.
Help us fire up our ovens.
In early 2026, a monsoon damaged supplies and equipment. The team is here and the model works. We’re rebuilding now. With your help, we’ll be back to baking in no time.
Why This Model Works
The people closest to the challenge are closest to the solution.
Knead to Feed doesn’t bring an outside model into Kakuma. It backs a local leader to build something the community owns, a business that feeds hungry neighbors, reduces dependence on aid, pays a good wage, and leaves people with skills they keep for life.
Let’s Make THE Difference funds local Difference Makers, not programs. The Difference shows up in what gets built, and what keeps running when the cameras are gone.
Be a Difference Maker whohelps other Difference Makers do the impossible.
By the Numbers
What the bakery has already built.
loaves a month at full capacity
staff on payroll at peak
the age range of those most at risk, and the ones it trains as facilitators
twice the living wage in the settlement
Profitable
Reached profitability during its run
◆ Aligned with the UN Global Goals: Zero Hunger (SDG 2), Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG 8), Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10).
The People Who Run It
The Difference Makers who run Knead to Feed.
Refugee-owned. Refugee-run.
The Knead to Feed Bakery belongs to the Difference Makers who built it, under Honore’s leadership. It has never been an outside operation handing out bread. It is the community’s own business, on the community’s own terms, teaching everyone who works there to run one themselves.
What began as a small bakery created by Honore Ebengo to teach refugees practical business skills has grown into one of LMTD’s most impactful community development initiatives. After seeing the bakery’s potential, LMTD Founder Wendy Huffman partnered with Honore to transform it into a refugee-led enterprise that creates jobs, feeds children, and helps fund peacebuilding efforts within the refugee camps. Honore’trained six refugee leaders in business management, who then became paid team members and helped train more than 130 aspiring bakers.
The vision was for graduates to launch their own bakeries and achieve long-term self-sufficiency, but funding limitations prevented the program from reaching its next phase. Despite those challenges, the bakery successfully provided bread, employment opportunities, and even operated a pilot meal program serving soup and fresh bread rolls to children in the community. Through donor support, LMTD has helped fund a commercial oven, mixer, solar power system, baker uniforms, and other critical equipment.
Today, the bakery continues to create opportunities for refugees while working toward its next goal: securing reliable delivery transportation to expand production, increase sales, and strengthen a sustainable source of income that supports both refugee families and LMTD’s Peace & Conflict Resolution initiatives.
First-person quotes and photos from the Kakuma team are being gathered with consent before publishing. A quote from Honore, who leads the bakery, is the priority.
By the Numbers
What the bakery has already built.
loaves a month at full capacity
staff on payroll at peak
the age range of those most at risk, and the ones it trains as facilitators
twice the living wage in the settlement
Knead to Feed reached profitability during its run: a profitable, refugee-run business inside a refugee camp.
◆ Aligned with the UN Global Goals · Zero Hunger (SDG 2) · Decent Work & Economic Growth (SDG 8) · Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10)
A proven model, and a community ready for it.
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This isn’t a hope or a pilot project. Knead to Feed has already proven it works, because Difference Makers are in charge. The work Let’s Make THE Difference funds goes directly to the people on the ground, verified, photographed, and accounted for.
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Help us fuel the ovens that fuel new beginnings.
In early 2026, a monsoon damaged supplies and equipment at the bakery. Since then, Knead to Feed has been working to get back in business. We’re rebuilding now, the team is here, and the model works.
Your donations will not only help us get the bakery back in production, but also help pay the first pay checks to our deserving team, and flood-proof the bakery building.
Let’s Make THE Difference is Verified on Candid
501(c)(3) · EIN 84-1728140 · Founded 2019. We’re recognized by Candid for verified financial and operational transparency. You can read our full profile, financials, and reporting by clicking the button below.
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