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Geneva · 28 August 2026

The four drinks sold in Geneva for the project: red bissap, ginger bissap, ginger juice and white bissap

A hand holds a bottle of red bissap. The label carries a QR code and, in French, the sentence “Every bottle supports the training of young bakers in Kaolack, Senegal”. — The label and its QR code: the front door to this site

Did a bottle bring you here?

Then you have already done something. The bissap and the ginger juice are sold in Geneva for the benefit of this project: every bottle goes towards training young bakers in Kaolack. Drinking it, giving it, talking about it: all of that helps, and all of it is possible today.

Where these bottles come from

They are made in Geneva, by the project’s bakers

Bissap is a hibiscus infusion, drunk all over Senegal. Here it is brewed, bottled and labelled in a Geneva bakehouse, then sold to fund the training in Kaolack.

A man in a white kitchen jacket pours bissap from a measuring jug into a bottle held over a mixing bowl; filled and labelled bottles wait beside him. — Bottling the bissap, in the bakehouse, in Geneva

The range has four drinks: red bissap, ginger bissap, ginger juice and white bissap. Every label carries a QR code that leads to this site’s home page. That is the route this site was built to be found by.

No donations are being collected

This site has no payment facility and displays no bank details. Only the bottles of bissap and ginger juice are sold for the project: for now, the proceeds go to the Association des Artisans Boulangers-Confiseurs du Canton de Genève, which makes the project’s funding applications. Any other request for money made in this project’s name today would not be coming from us.

Transparency

How the project is funded

The funding combines several sources: the contribution of the Kaolack Departmental Council, which provides the land and part of the money; Geneva public grants; private foundations; the proceeds from the bissap and ginger-juice bottles; donations; and contributions in kind, above all the reused bakery equipment.

The amounts are not published at this stage. The budget is being built on real quotes, and announcing it before it is settled would tell you nothing.

The project’s accounts will be made public at the end of each financial year.

Starting now

Four ways to help without giving a franc

Spread the word

Passing the word along helps immediately, and it counts: documenting public information work between Switzerland and Senegal is one of the things Geneva’s public funders look at.

Bring a skill

Baking, vocational training, agronomy, logistics, translation, bookkeeping for associations, photography and video: volunteers with these skills are wanted now, in Geneva and in Kaolack alike.

Tell us about equipment

Bakery equipment that still works and is headed for the skip: mixers, ovens, proofing cabinets, sheeters. Reusing it is a large part of the project.

Put us in touch

Foundations, municipalities, businesses in the trade, vocational schools, diaspora associations: any useful introduction is welcome.

Two spiral mixers lined up against a tiled bakehouse wall, their stainless-steel bowls visible, a third machine behind. — Spiral mixers in a Geneva bakehouse: the kind of machine the project wants to give a second life

What the equipment we are after looks like

These are two spiral mixers. It is the kind of machine a bakery replaces every fifteen or twenty years, and that gets scrapped while still in working order.

An oven, a proofing cabinet, a sheeter, a planetary mixer, a dough divider: if you come across one looking for a second life, let us know. This kind of gift weighs more than it looks. Equipment is the item the project has the hardest time funding.

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