Bricks To Bread International

Global Leadership: In 2024, a total of 104 Youth Volunteers engaged in different community-driven initiatives. Our program promotes world peace, expands worldview, fosters cross-cultural understanding, and inspires servant leadership. In addition to one-time volunteer opportunities for youth, we offer a unique service learning opportunity for students interested in sharing their gifts and talents through both our Volunteer Trip Experiences and our Internship Program. A total of 26 youth and young adults (six local youth volunteers, and 20 youth in-country volunteers) participated in our volunteer trip experience. Our 7- to 11-day excursions cultivate a life-changing cultural exchange between recipients and volunteers, build meaningful relationships and provide opportunities that expand worldview, foster cross-cultural understanding, and inspire servant leadership. Two interns had intensive on-the-job training experiences working alongside leadership, staff, volunteers and donors.

Community Engagement: Our community events are centered around the warmth of a community bread oven. During 2024, we offered 28 baking events in two communities, reaching over 1,012 local families who participated in our mission through our baking events. We offer volunteer participation experiences and sell baked goods throughout the region. Our oven events demonstrate just how our oven recipients in rural regions of Latin America change lives with a brick and a loaf.