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Letter to Dan Leader from the Governor of New York, David A Paterson

The South African Whole Grain Bread Project
Wins Prize in BiD Challenge 2006

The BiD Challenge stimulates small and medium enterprise development in developing countries through an international Business Plan competition for poverty reduction and profit.

• LOCAL ENTREPENEURS WIN IN HOLLAND
  First Americans to take home prize in the 2006 BiD Challenge
  Woodstock, NY (October 18, 2006) – The South African Whole Grain Bread Project (SAWGBP), a business developed by local entrepreneurs Dan Leader of Bread Alone, retired physician Neil Ratner and his wife, Leann Ratner as a response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa, was one of 16 new businesses awarded prizes last week in the 2006 Business in Development (BiD) Challenge held in Holland.
  
  
• More information on the BiD Challenge
• BiD Challenge Award Event and Marketplace - September 29th, 2006
• Finalists BiD Challenge 2006

South African Whole Grain Bread Project
Supporting Community Projects with Whole Grain Bread Bakeries

The South African Whole Grain Bread Project aims to establish community-based microbakeries to produce fresh, high quality, whole grain bread to improve the nutrition of health-compromised and malnourished adults and children. The bread will help satisfy the dietary needs of malnourished HIV/AIDS positive individuals who need to improve their health in order to allow retroviral drugs to work effectively. In addition to the health objectives, the baking initiative has been designed as a small business/ social development project that will encourage income generation opportunities for South Africans living with HIV/AIDS. The project will produce a trademarked grain and flour mix which will be milled from South African wheat, whole grains and seeds, and then blended with vitamins and folic acid.

Above: Daniel Leader and bakers of Picknpay support bakery in Johannesburg...
Dan has had great experience teaching untrained bakers in various settings, to make the highest quality whole grain breads.

More information On The South African Whole Grain Bread Project
(from the Business in Development Network, bidnetwork.org)

Be sure to see Bread Alone's GIFT OF LIFE page for more information about
The South African Whole Grain Bread Project.

Please also visit the South African Whole Grain Bread Project, at SAWGBP.ORG