Cake business during Covid

Luz Coaquira is 19 years old and lives with her parents and sister in La Paz. Luz has been studying at the Cefim Institute for two years in the Administration Services in Gastronomy Course. Over the past year Luz has been undertaking her business skills training at Cefim’s catering unit: La Especieria, she says that she has learnt a lot and it has helped her to cope during the Covid pandemic.

During quarantine, Luz was unable to attend face-to-face classes but participated in online classes through Cefim. Throughout this time, she began receiving requests for birthday cakes from friends and neighbours. As a result, Luz decided to begin her own business making cakes and the business is so successful that her mother now works with her to keep up with demand, they also make various pastries and baked goods.

As well as this, Cefim gave their students online classes about nutrition and so Luz decided to begin a garden in her family home growing various vegetables, with the garden yielding many nutritious vegetables for her family’s consumption.