(Adrienne Mong/NBC News) The bakers wait for their challah loaves to cool.
Bakery Raises Spirits of Beijing Mental Patients
JULY 23, 2010Adrienne Mong, MSNBC
After starting an organic farm project at the Beijing Chaoyang District Mental Health Service Center, a privately-run mental institution, Natascha Prigge and Yvonne Gerig came up with the idea of a bakery.
"We were thinking of something that we can teach to the patients, and we were looking for [an] occupation that they can do all year long," said Prigge, who studied business when she was in college. "And baking is something that is easy to learn, easy to handle, and when we started five years ago there were not so many bakeries around."
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