Cakes with potatoes ?!

"They save lives in Rwanda." Clarisse Murekatete, smile, shows a large hand gesture, donuts and cakes, wrapped in transparent paper and placed on a small table.

In Rwanda, there obviously are breads, cakes and fritters made of wheat flour and there are those facts ... based sweet potatoes oranges came quite recently of farmers farms. These are the "Vit-A Bread" to the delight inhabitants of the land of a thousand hills.

To stand "RYAF - Rwanda Youth in Agribusiness Forum" Forum exhibition of town for Agricultural Research in Africa , many curious continue to ask questions to Clarissa, one of the co-founders of RYAF.

All want to know how we pass the potatoes to pastries. Patiently and with his eternal smile, the young woman says: "We buy our oranges farmers potatoes. We turn with our machines at the headquarters of our company, Carl Group Ltd ".

3000 potato fritters week
"Why sweet potatoes oranges?" Asks a visitor who just biting into a cake. "Because they are rich in vitamin A and protein. This is essential for the human being, "replied Clarisse.

Each week, the young woman and her three friends (two women and one man), co-founder of the Carl Group Ltd, manufacture 3,000 donuts, hundreds of cakes and some baquettes breads distributed mostly in the canteens of schools, colleges, colleges and universities in Kigali, the Rwandan capital.

In the city center, the "Vit-A Bread" are sold in a fast food restaurant. A site where the former university classmates receive mostly young customers and take the opportunity to raise awareness on the merits of agricultural entrepreneurship.

With the money from their various sales and money earned in the various competitions in Rwanda, the four co-founders were able to purchase a car for their distribution and now employ ten people.

Pasta sweet potato
But the main purpose of the Carl Group Ltd, established in 2014, is to produce breads, donuts and cakes scale oranges potatoes and distribute them in African countries.

"We also want to recruit engineers and scientists who study with us the right dosages and experience a production made with 100% sweet potato flour because at the moment we use about 10% of wheat flour to give consistency the potatoes, "said Clarisse.

Meanwhile, young entrepreneurs have another challenge: turning sweet potatoes pasta. Clarisse we swear they have already tried and "it was not bad."

We have only to taste the donuts and cakes with orange potatoes, sugar and vitamins, to guess the flavor coming spaghetti.

Blogpost and picture by Josiane Kouagheu, padochemie (at) yahoo.fr, # AASW7 social reporter. 
This post Represents the author's views only.