Thursday 16 February 2012

The Cupcake Miracle

Throughout the years the Mai Mission team from Mission, BC have collaborated with the Children’s home in Chiang Mai to brainstorm new ideas that the kids can use in order to make their own money for the home. In Thailand most of the groceries are sourced locally and sold at markets and bazaars, and because of this many of the past ideas have involved agriculture. They grow their own rice and manage to harvest enough to eat, with excess being shared with other homes, and sold for seedlings for next years crop. They’ve also spent time raising pigs to sell and breed on their new land, but without a road, pigs are a difficult resource to maintain. They’ve also grown and sold vegetables and fruit and even handmade goods have been a source of income for them, making tourist items such as purses and fisherman’s pants.
Piggies on the land in 2010


To continue these endevours we’ve incorporated a lot of these resources into the land planning. Rice fields, fruit orchards and vegetable gardens each have a planned space on the new land, along with workshops to house welders, carpentry tools and sewing machines to help the kids learn important skills that can be used to make money, but with the kids getting older and with university on the horizon, it just wasn’t enough. That’s when the cupcake miracle happened.

Some examples of their finery


Last summer the kids ventured into a whole new territory: Catering. With the help of Raelene (our agent, Dominik’s, wife) the kids learned to bake a whole array of interesting and delicious cupcakes. Using only natural ingredients such as dragon fruit and papaya they are able to create beautiful tastey cupcakes in amazing colours, and they best part is, they SELL! These children have been able to bring home upwards of 500$ CAD per month giving them the ability to pay for important necessities like school supplies and car repairs, even giving them the ability to bless others. They were able to help out a friend, twelve year old Pataima, who used to be in the home but had to return to her home village about a year ago. She didn’t have enough money for a school uniform and they were able to reach out and lend a helping hand.

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