Vietnam: New pastry school for disadvantaged youth launched in HCMC

Trainnees of La Boulangerie Française in HCMC. (source: LBF Fanpage)

From: Thoi Dai Vietnam Times, http://vietnamfriendship.vn, 6/22/2018 5:06:03 PM

(VNF) – La Boulangerie Française, a bakery and pastry school working to create employment opportunity for disadvantaged youth was officially kick started in Ho Chi Minh City on June 22. 

Located at No. 53 Vo Văn Ngan str., Linh Chieu ward, Thu Duc district, La Boulangerie Française HCMC  is opened following the success of La Boulangerie Française/Banh mi Phap in the central province of Hue.

La Boulangerie Française is a cooperation program between IECD (European Institute of Cooperation and Development) and TDC (Thu Duc College of Technology).

A product of La Boulangerie Française in Hue. (source: LBF fanpage)

La Boulangerie Française – HCMC aims to enable Vietnamese vulnerable youngsters (age 18-23), through a 16-20 months training, to become highly-skilled and responsible adults, socially well integrated with the capability to become agents of their own development.

To ensure its economic sustainability, it operates as a social business and, thanks to the sale of the products made by the apprentices, it aims to self-finance more than 90% of its operating costs.

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