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To whom it may concern,
My name is Danielle (Danni) Van der Vyver and a couple of years ago I met Silke Nebel and her family and I know of the great work they do for others, and since the start of the Sir Lowrys Pass project I have been privaledged to be a part of that good work.
This project is one that is close to my heart because I have seen first hand what these people and especially the children of this community go through and to be able to contribute in some way in making these wonderful childrens futures better is an amazing thing for me.
To get the chance to go and shadow the project first hand would be a chance of a life time and one that will not only change my life but those of all the children i am able to help.
I am willing to learn as much as i can and do everything in my power to further this project and better the lives affected by this project.
South Africa visits Neukauf Milkau
During the 17th century, more and more people from different backgrounds settled in the Cape Region, which had originally only been envisaged as a staging post: Slaves from the Caribbean, labourers from India, French Huguenots, Jan van Ribbek from Holland as well as German and English settlers. And of course they all brought recipes with them from their homelands for the food they liked to eat.
The mix of South African cuisine is the result of the influences from all these countries. As Silke Nebel explains, the cuisine of the Koi Koi and the San from the Black Africans, the aboriginal people of Africa, has only had a limited influence on today's South African cuisine. The national dish, Bobotie, a minced beef casserole with a milk-crust topping represents all the influences wonderfully.
A favourite guest and a fab of South Africa
Bobotie
Two days of non-stop cooking and telling the shoppers about the project, netted donations of €241.46. A big thank you to all who donated and supported the project.
The Cookery Studio is open!
Until 8:00 pm on Saturday 12th June, you can sample some South African cooking and find out more about the project. Silke Nebel will cook for you herself and tell you about her project.
SWR 4. At home with us
One of the programmes you can hear on SWR 4 Baden-Württemberg 95.2 MHz is:
- The regional magazine with News from the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg Region
Monday to Friday at 12:30 pm
On Friday 11th June 2010, you can hear the interview with Silke Nebel, Barbara Schmidt and Maximilian Nebel about the Sir Lowry’s Pass Project in South Africa.
   
South Africa visits Neukauf in Aldingen
Support our project for a residential bakery college in South Africa
We want to build an education centre there. This should make it possible to give bakery apprentices training in the art of bread making, similar to that available in Germany, so that they can get a chance to build a future for themselves.
Neukauf Milkau Aldingen
Your donation will help to make it possible to build an education centre for young South Africans.
Fund-raising Campaign for South Africa
Interview with Silke Nebel
Held by Ingrid Kohler
Aldingen – Silke Nebel, 40, who was born in Aixheim, lived for two years with her family in South Africa. Nine months ago, the Nebels returned to Germany and are now living in Aldingen. Silke has taken on a lot for the poorest of the poor in South Africa with the Sir Lowry’s Pass fund-raising campaign that she has initiated. Silke Nebel answers some questions about the Sir Lowry’s Pass Project:
Mrs. Nebel, what is the Sir Lowry’s Project?
Bread is and remains the main source of food for the poor population in South Africa. Nevertheless, many people are often living below the “bread level”. Even though it is a basic food, many cannot afford to eat bread every day. Through the project, we want to give a sign to show our solidarity and to build an education centre there. It should make it possible to give bakery apprentices training in the art of bread making, similar to that available in Germany, so that they can get a chance to build a future for themselves.
How much money do you need in order to put the project into effect?
We need startup capital of 100,000 Euro for setting up the bakery, to pay the rent, power and water, for insurance cover, to finance a vehicle and for the salary for German bakers to carry out the training. We could start with ten apprentices who would get about € 150 a month. After six months, we would be able to take on the next group. The training lasts for 18 months. After three years, the project would be self-supporting. The education centre will work in close collaboration with the church organisations in the slums, in order to be able to sell the bread made there at a vey low price that at least covers the manufacturing costs. This will give the people there the help they need to be able to help themselves.
Can this be achieved?
I very much hope so. After starting back in December 2009 together with Father Thaddeus and two Catholic youth groups from Somerset West and the Aldingen/Aixheim/Denkingen/Frittlingen pastoral care team, I collected donations at the jumble sale in Aldingen. Three days later I visited the Aixheim toddlers group and set up the first collecting tin in the Aixheimer Lädele. I made a presentation to the Aixheimers about the project in front of the shop. I must admit that back then, we could only take very small steps with the donations we received, but I have seen and experienced the hardship and the poverty in South Africa and the Sir Lowry’s Pass Project is my goal.
What are your next steps?
I will be present at other events, maybe even markets, to let the people know about the situation in South Africa and to ask for donations. I give you my word that every Euro donated will go towards the project, 100%. I would be happy to visit kindergartens, schools, clubs or events throughout the region, in order to present the project. For the future, I would like to get a financial backer who would help my project and support the bakery with campaigns or perhaps get schools to hold sponsored runs to raise funds. Essentially, I need to get my message to as wider an audience as possible. I need to get a lot of people on board for such an important project, to help the needy people of South Africa.
You can get more information from:
Silke Nebel
Hintere Dorfstraße 10
78554 Aldingen
Germany
+49 (0)7424 9607627
www.sir-lowrys-pass.com
facebook: sir lowrys pass
Picture: Silke Nebel
At the bake house party
held by the History and Antiquity Society in Denkingen, some 120 loaves of bread and a lot of rolls, made in the bake house, were distributed amongst the guests. Also there, was Silke Nebel (at the back), with her presentation about the Sir Lowry's Pass Project.
Photo: Private
She talked to the guests about the campaign to collect money for a bakery in South Africa, as previously reported in this newspaper. And according to Silke, the visitors proved to be very generous.
Published on Thursday 20th May 2010
A Bakery for South Africa
They found happiness in South Africa and lost it again. Now, the Nebel family from Aldingen want to help the people there. But the first steps are always difficult.
WOLF-DIETER BOJUS
It sounds like a dream. Achim Nebel was looking for a job abroad and he found one as a baker in South Africa. With his whole family, wife Silke, daughter Mirijam and son Maximilian, he moved to the new home in Summer 2007. The first setback came just four weeks later when his employer closed down. But the four of them bounced back. Achim opened up his own bakery in Somerset West, a town not far from Cape Town. Everything went well. After just one year, larger premises and more equipment were needed. A business partner came on board who not only put some investment in, but also take over all the financial side of things.
And this is when the dream turned into a nightmare. After three months with good turnover, all the money was gone, leaving only unpaid bills behind. There was nothing for it but go into bankruptcy. A court case is still pending but according to Silke Nebel, “That will take ages down there”. And the initial consequence was that they had to return to Germany. “It was hard to say that we had to go," she recalls. They had experienced a lot of warmth and friendship from people there. In the good times, the family had got to know a Father Thaddeus and helped him as he and a group of young people distributed bread to the inhabitants of the slum quarter of Sir Lowry’s Pass. According to Silke Nebel, most people there are unemployed. Many of them cannot afford the daily bread, largely because of the high prices that the supermarkets charge. And this give her the idea of training the young people from the orphanage there at the bakery, to give them the chance of finding a job. Bankruptcy however, put paid to all this. But the energetic Silke Nebel had already put a lot of herself into the project. She is not giving up and wants to start the project from Germany. Because her bakery no longer exists, a new operation has to be set up where young people can be trained. She is thinking in terms of two bakers and one teacher, because there is no chance of attending a vocational school there. She calculates that she needs € 100,000. One collection tin is in place but that certainly won’t be enough on its own to achieve such a sum. A solicitor from Berlin is helping to set up a club that will collect donations. And then? “I hope that we shall achieve our goals in three years,” says Silke Nebel. Further information: www.sir-lowrys-pass.com
Published on Thursday 6th May 2010
Heuberger Bote 21.04.2010
Silke Nebel fights for orphans in South Africa
Silke Nebel (right), at the Jumble Sale in Aldingen’s Erich Fischer Hall, told the visitors about the Sir Lowry’s Pass Project on South Africa and collected donations.
(Aldingen/iko)
Twice, Silke Nebel, 40, from Aixheim, was faced with ruin in South Africa. Nevertheless, she is not giving up on the idea of establishing an education centre for bakers there for the orphans.
Just last year, she almost had her goal in reach. Then the dream of providing help for the poorest of the poor was shattered. But with her “I can do it” approach, Silke Nebel remains confident and collects donations.
With the project, Silke Nebel and her family want to give a sign of their solidarity and to build an education centre there, in South Africa. “It should make it possible to give bakery apprentices training in the art of bread making, similar to that available in Germany, so that they can get a chance to build a future for themselves,” explained the dynamic Aldinger, who herself experienced a huge disappointment in South Africa.
“In 2007, I emigrated to South Africa with my husband Achim and the children Mirjam and Maximilian.” Achim Nebel had found in a job as a baker, near Cape Town. But just four weeks later, the family was facing ruin for the first time, as the bakery was forced to close. They decided to take the plunge and go it alone and opened their own bakery. Their persistence paid off. After a difficult start, the business boomed. Soon, they were supplying hotels, restaurants and supermarkets.
Through the church, she got to know Father Thaddeus, who was looking for donations of bread for an action he was involved with. Silke continues: “We donated more than 100 loaves. Young people sliced them, spread them with a simple topping and went through the slums, handing the bread out to the poor, who were very grateful to receive it.”
The idea of training young people as bakers was born because, as Silke says; “Bread is and remains the main source of food for the poor population in South Africa, but many people are often living below the “bread level. Even though it is a basic food, many cannot afford to eat bread every day and if the orphan children learn the baker's trade, this gives them the help they need to be able to help themselves.”
The Nebels had everything planned. “There was to be an education centre with accommodation and a guest house so that not just bakers could be trained, but also girls could get a job as chamber maids. There were also plans to build a car repair shop.” But things were not going to go to plan.
The Nebels found a partner in order to expand the business. “But this was the road to ruin. The business partner cheated us and after just a few short months, everything was lost, nothing could be saved. Even the dream of the “Bread is life” project burst like a bubble.”
The family returned to Germany. But Silke is not giving up: The plan is still to return to South Africa, “just as soon as there is enough money”. Startup capital of 100,000 Euro is needed for setting up the bakery, to pay the rent, power and water, for insurance cover, to finance a vehicle and for the salary for German bakers to carry out the training. In order to achieve that, she started the “Give a Child a Gift” project with Father Thaddeus in December 2009. The two Catholic youth groups from Somerset West and the Aldingen / Aixheim / Denkingen / Frittlingen pastoral care team are also on board.
(Published: 20.04.2010 13:05)
First collection tin in the Aixheimer Lädle
13.04.2010
The Aixheimer Lädle run by Heidi and Pauline is supporting the Sir Lowry’s Pass project by inviting donations with the first collection tin.
Thanks very much to them
The Aixheim mothers and toddlers group
Silke Nebel, telling the mothers at the mothers and toddlers group about the Sir Lowry’s Pass project on 13.04.2010.
Jumble sale at the Erich Fischer Hall on 9th April 2010
The information booth about the Sir Lowry’s Pass Project “Bread is life” attracted donations of € 65.80 at the Aldingen jumble sale in the Erich Fischer Hall. A big thank you to all who donated.
A recipe for South African Bobotie
2 Onions
cooking oil or butter
1kg minced meat
1 slice bread
250 ml milk
2 eggs
15 ml medium curry powder
22,5 ml sugar
10 ml salt
2,5 ml pepper
7,5 ml turmeric
30 ml vinegar
6 almonds
125 ml seedles raisins
4 bay leaves
45ml chutney
1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrese
2. Peel and slice the onions thinly.Fry lightly in hot cooking oil and if uncooked meat is used,frywith the onions until slightly cooked and crumbly.
3. Soak the bread in the milk and squeeze out the milk. Mash the bread.
4. Mix all the ingredients except 125 ml milk, 1 egg and the leaves.
5. Spoon the mixtures into a greased oven dish, roll up the leaves and insert them in an upright position in the meat mixture.
6. Bake for 1 hour if uncooked meat is used and for 45 minutes if cooked meat is used.
7. Beat the remaining egg with 125 ml milk and pour over the meat 30 minutes before the end of the cooking time.
8. Serve with rice and chutney.
Report in PrimaA Spaichingen on 31st March 2010
Help for slum children
Silke Nebel and her family wanted to settle down in South Africa and help orphans but at the last minute, »
their business partner threw a spanner into the works. 
from Johannes Werner
Three years ago Silke, her husband and their two children moved to South Africa to start a new life. They established a bakery in the south of the country and invested all their savings in it. But they were forced to give up their dream and return to Germany. What remains is a strong tie to the slum orphans in South Africa and the desire to be able to help them further.
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