New Delhi: The Live band appears in the background and open kitchen filled with activities such as Kamala, Tara and Rajni with busy giving orders for muffins, coffee, bread rolls, Pakora – and all time favorites: Maggie Mie with a touch of women and vegetables.
It could be a crowded cafe until someone realizes that the women behind the desk, serving, cooking and helping in the kitchen are all blind.
That’s when the name of the cafe, “baked blind”, began to make sense.
Concept Café will be open to the public from mid-November and is a step towards creating livelihood options for female training participants in the NAB India-Center for blind women and disability studies in Hauz typical enclave.
The menu is in Braille, subway dedicated to the chefs and staff for better accessibility to the cafe and space for 50 in a beautiful yard in the center will make the cafe experience just more memorable for the guests.
Bake Bake was officially launched with several guests and staff present at the NAB Center last Saturday.
“Full operation will begin on November 15,” Shalini Khanna, the founder of the center center, told TII.
“While limited seating services will be available for friends of NAB Center and those in their neighborhood, baked blind will provide shipping services to other parts of the city.” “Once a full-time canteen for central staff, baked blind now has a wider vision,” Khanna described.
“It aims to not only train smart and capable girls to find work or start their own cafes and tea companies, but also give them real-time exposure to the income generation.” This center offers skill courses for women who are visually disturbed and run hostels for 35 trainees.
At present, four blind women work under their teacher’s guidance, Sheena Sahni, a professional baker.
When TOI visited the cafe, Tara and Rajni handling a noodle pan.
Smiling, Rajni revealed that they were very dependent on the senses of touch, smell and perception.
“Once we know about the placement of the right things in the kitchen and measurement of the right material, we can easily cook certain dishes.
That happened,” 35-year-old rewaring residents smiled.
He has been part of a cooking course for a month now.
Courses and cafes have changed Rajni’s life.
He claimed to be reluctant to meet people and preferred in the room, afraid of being judged by others.
“Now I hope I will be able to open and overcome my obstacles,” he said before returning to help Tara with other orders for noodles.
Kamala, 39, is the head of the chef and has a picture arising on the Braille menu placed on each table.
His inability to see did not stop Kamala leaving his house in Nepal and came all the way to Delhi to take new skills in the center.
He arrived just before the pandemic, and cooking had opened a new way for him to dream.
He now plans to hone his skills before returning home for his daughter and helping him establish their own company.
Standing by a skillet, Tara looks confident with cooking speed even though it only has around 20% vision.
Original Kanpur was most eager to meet new people in the cafe.
Sahni, guidance for the attention for these women, revealed that as the person he was seen, he tried to step into the training participants’ shoes.
“I closed my eyes and tried to do things to understand the challenges of my team facing.
The work divided among team members depends on the capacity of everyone to handle tasks such as cleaning, cutting, frying and baking.” Welcoming a new room for a good cup of coffee.
For the regional residents, Hauz typical Enclave President Rwa Praveen Gupta said blind bake was a very much needed idea that would encourage inclusion in the company.