Knead to Feed: Honore’s Ventures Bakery

Feeding communities. Building business. Creating lasting opportunity.

A Bakery with Purpose

Knead to Feed is a social enterprise bakery in Kakuma Refugee Camp that combines food security with entrepreneurship. Under the leadership of Honore, this bakery is more than a place that bakes bread — it is a place where people earn, learn, and contribute to community resilience.

This pilot project is designed to demonstrate how sustainable businesses can feed communities while creating dignified employment and business skills.

How This Bakery Makes a Difference

Jobs & Skills

Honore’s Ventures Bakery has already:

  • Employed up to 12 staff simultaneously

  • Trained over 100 students in baking and business skills

  • Operated with a 24-hour clay, wood-fired oven

  • Supported workers with real income and real opportunity

Each employee not only earns a wage, but they also learn how to run a business, from production to sales to customer relationships.

Thanks to Recent Support

A generous gift from the Kakuma Transformation Initiative allowed us to purchase a commercial mixer, transforming the bakery’s capacity.

Production Growth:

  • Before: ~3,200 bread rolls per month

  • With mixer: projected 12,000 bread rolls per month

This is a dramatic jump in both scale and stability — all coming from targeted, catalytic investment.

Your Support Will Grow This Enterprise

We’re now raising funds to make the bakery even more sustainable and impactful. Your contributions will support:

Electric Ovens

  • Increase production capacity even further

  • Reduce reliance on wood fuel

  • Improve safety and consistency

Additional Equipment

  • Proofing ovens

  • Baking tools

  • Storage solutions

  • Training stations

Operational Strengthening

  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for production

  • Replication tools for future bakeries

  • Packaging and distribution improvements

Why This Model Works

Knead to Feed is built around a simple, powerful idea:

People who are closest to the challenge are also closest to the solution.

Instead of imposing external models, we support leaders like Honore to grow locally owned enterprises that:

  • Feed hungry communities

  • Reduce dependence on aid

  • Provide real income and opportunity

  • Build transferable business skills

This approach echoes global development priorities like:

  • Zero Hunger (SDG 2)

  • Decent Work & Economic Growth (SDG 8)

  • Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10)

What Success Looks Like

With your support, we aim to:

  • Triple monthly output again (target 30,000+ rolls/mo)

  • Train 200+ additional apprentices in business skills

  • Employ more community members at living wages

  • Prototype a replicable bakery model that can scale to other settlements

This is impact that sustains itself — and spreads.

Support Knead to Feed

Every gift moves the bakery forward:

$500 — Helps equip tools and ovens
$1,000 — Expands training capacity for apprentices
$2,500+ — Adds electric ovens and production upgrades

Your contribution helps local leaders build long-term solutions — not just temporary aid.

Get Involved

  • Support Honore’s Bakery through a gift

  • Share this project with your network

  • Invite others to invest in sustainable impact

Knead to Feed is proof that when leaders are empowered, communities thrive.

Knead to Feed aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including Zero Hunger (SDG 2), Decent Work & Economic Growth (SDG 8), and Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10).