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Voko women's bakery
A small project for the Voko tribe of the Western Solomon Islands enabling women to group together in an enterprise with nutritional as well as economic value.
This project involved working with the women of the Voko tribe, to facilitate their aspirations for economic and social empowerment. Their existing skills in bread making were combined with Australian skills in design and modification of a suitable electric oven that could reduce drudgery, eliminate the use of rainforest timber, and further exploit their existing APACE micro hydroelectric power system. The greater volume of output also enabled an economic surplus through distribution to nearby Kukundu mission school and the provincial town settlement at Gizo. The Voko Women's Committee now own and operate the project.
Duration: two years
Supported by
AusAID (formerly AUSAB)
APACE
Iriri Community Development, comprising all residents of the Iriri village.
Clients are the Womens' Committee of the Voko Tribe of Kolombangra, Solomon Islands.
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