Cacao Revenga is a program that seeks to favor the capacities of the gastronomic entrepreneurs in the Revenga Municipality with the aim of generating sustainable and successful businesses
Cacao Revenga
How it arose
The Venezuelan-Italian Chamber in partnership with the NGO Trabajo y Persona, run the project Venezuela Tierra de Cacao, training throughout the women in the art of chocolate making. In 2017, they approached the Santa Teresa Foundation to participate in this project with the support of the Delegation of the European Union in Venezuela. By 2018, financial backing was approved, allowing the program to start running in Revenga in February 2019.
Participants receive training in the techniques of tempering, making chocolate bars, coins and lollipops as well as French and Belgian style chocolates along with basic notions of costs and approaches to business plans.
Aim
To favor the economic, social and technical conditions that would allow the entrepreneurs to set up sustainable businesses associated with the chain of values that Ron Santa Teresa represents.
Where it takes place
In the Revenga municipality, Aragua state, Venezuela
Who it attends
Female entrepreneurs in the area of gastronomy, inhabitants of Revenga municipality
Methodology
Our project has an integral approach which ranges from chocolate making techniques to the development of business competencies to allow the commercialization of the products.
The components are as follows:
National and international cacao market
Business plan
Packing
Chocolate making
Sales techniques, consumers, development of product portfolios
Beneficiaries
30
People
Yearly achievements
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18 entrepreneurs completed the first phase of training in chocolate making
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Consolidation of their training in the 5 components of the methodology
Partnership with Kakao Bombones Venezolanos of María Fernanda Di Giacobbe
Start of training participants in the business plan and in the Bean to Bar program