Baking for Home of Hope

Our Outreach School has a program called Outreach for Pregnant and Parenting Teens (OPPT). Community volunteers come to our school nursery to provide child care which enables our students to meet with their academic teachers as well as attend parenting workshops. The goal is to help these students complete their high school diploma. While our students also receive community support in the form of clothing, diapers and food, they want to extend support to pregnant and parenting teens on the other side of the world. Our school heard a presentation on the Home of Hope, an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya where babies are rescued from the city dump and both the moms and babies are cared for.

http://www.homeofhope.ca/stories/243-rescuingbabies

Our OPPT and Outreach students wish to support the Home of Hope.
Our students will be baking Christmas goodies to give to the staff and clients of the Leduc Recreation Centre, where our school is based. We will send any donated monies from the cookie gifts to the Home of Hope. The students have established contact with one teen mom and wish to support her and her little boy.

Update (December 18, 2013)

Last Tuesday, December 10 our Outreach for Parenting and Pregnant Teens (OPPT) class baked Christmas cookies in advance of the FOODS courses students beginning their project.

Update (June 19, 2014)

Our Baking for the Home of Hope was a great success!

We had 7 students participate in baking and decorating delicious homemade goodies. We dressed up in Christmas outfits and went through our Leduc Recreation Centre to offer goodies in the hopes of people donating. They certainly did! An office manager even bought a full basket for her office party later that day. In total we raised $243.77 which we sent to Nairobi. This will cover a semester's tuition for Priscilla and care for her son, Noah.

Update (June 19, 2014)

Our neighbours in the Leduc Recreation Centre were grateful to have their office baking done!

Update (June 19, 2014)

We even made gluten free as one of our students is gluten free:)