The Proposed Bread Bakery

A project that the Church of the Holy Comforter is interested in supporting is a micro-enterprise project, specifically a bread bakery in Santa Rita. Concepcion and others with whom I spoke in Santa Rita believe a bakery would allow their church to quickly move in the direction of becoming self-sustainable. They believe that there is a siginificant market for a bread bakery in Santa Rita and Copan Ruinas, and I tend to agree.

I've done initial market research in Copan Ruinas, talking to a number of my contacts there who own hotels and restaurants. The closest bakery at the moment is located in La Entrada, which is a 1-hour drive from Copan Ruinas/Santa Rita.

I understand the importance of writing a business plan for this effort, and I've advised Concepcion that he needs to submit a draft proposal for the idea before we can really get moving on our end.

Holy Comforter will be sending a small mission team to Copan Ruinas during the latter half of July 2006. The team will be in Copan Ruinas primarily to take an intensive course in Spanish so we can better support the Santa Rita community. But it also plans to do some work in Santa Rita with Concepcion. I would like to see if we could tie our mission this year to helping make the bakery a reality sooner rather than later.

Marco
Church of the Holy Comforter
Vienna, VA