Youth for Economic Justice

For six girls in Garratola Village, a lesson in bread making has led all the way to a high school diploma. The girls are apprentice bakers at the Rose Bakery, a women-led community enterprise in Madhya Pradesh, India. Through selling their loaves and snacks at a stall on the main road that runs past the village, the young women have …

When Manuela Coletti from Youth Economic Justice (YEJ) opened the organisation’s first enterprise development projects in Madhya Pradesh in 2016, she knew that early marriage was a serious issue for the community. She hadn’t expected that it would have such an immediate impact on the organisation’s activities. YEJ began their work by opened a tailoring school and a bakery to train local adolescent girls in skills …