In December, Zdrava Vodenicharova our team took part in the 8th Mont-Blanc Meetings international forum in Archamps, France. The goal of the forum is to promote Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) within a pluralistic economy around the world with a specific theme of SEE: The New Efficiency. The event was a gathering between social and solidarity economy actors from 5 continents, and consisted of plenary sessions and collaborative workshops. It presents various stakeholders and leaders in the field of economic and social change in sharing ideas about economic innovation and development. Our organization was one of three finalists that received a special invitation and an award to present about our methods at the forum. The other two finalists were Scol’ERE Carbon Bursary (Canada) and the Federative Co-operative of Senegal’s Horticulture Actors (Senegal). Attendees of the forum were inspired and fascinated by our work. Apart from the international recognition that the Bread Houses Network received, our organization was also awarded free coaching sessions for organizational development from Coach Around The World, as well as access to tools that allow to facilitate organizational assessment, strategic and operational planning, international and external communication from CERISE. Zdrava from our team was also able to present the “Bakers Without Borders” game (http://thegame.bakerswithoutb
