PHILIPSBURG:— As part of the K1 Britannia Foundation’s Christmas Angels program, the K1 team collaborated with Cookies Goodies and More to provide home-baked cookies for the St. Martin’s Home. The idea behind the activity came from St. Martin’s Home activity coordinator Ms. Marianne Pantophlet who indicated the need for more social activities for the clients at the home. Instead of St. Martin’s home receiving gifts via the Christmas Angels program, this year the foundations agreed to host a creative and social activity with the elderly.
The event took place on Monday, where Christian Richardson and Ihndhira Marlin-Richardson of Cookies Goodies and More, took part in the event and provided over 70 cookies that were generously given for the decorating activity.
K1 staff and volunteers were present to spend the morning with 30 clients of the home, which added festivity and community bonding for persons involved.
There were Christmas angel and tree shaped cookies ready to be decorated, and the elderly and volunteers were provided with colored icing in various colors to bring in the holiday spirit. The morning started with the volunteers mixing the sugar batter icing, and the day carried into the team assisting the elderly with the glazing of different patterns and colors.
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“Decorating cookies at the St. Martin’s home was a nice experience, it was especially great because we had some very young volunteers and the clients of the St. Martin’s Home really enjoyed seeing these little girls help them to make the decorated cookies. I found out that it was much harder than it looks to decorate those cookies but it was nice to interact and speak with the clients about which colors they prefer and then to see them enjoy their cookies afterward.” reflected Iris Hakkens, K1 Britannia’s Program Manager who joined in the decorating activity.
“Besides the cookie decorating, chess was played and conversations were had with the clients about their wellbeing. We look forward to hosting more of these activities next over the years,” added K1 Britannia’s Program Manager, Chiaira Bowers.
The White and Yellow Cross Care Foundation provides guidance and assistance for the elderly, disabled and those in the various districts on St. Maarten. The St. Martin’s Home, as well the Sister Basilia Center and District Nursing Home are under the supervision of the foundation.
K1 Britannia’s Annual Christmas Angels program involved clients of the Sister Basilia Center and District Nursing Home, where persons in the community was encouraged to pick an angel and buy a gift for someone from these organizations. K1 held various distribution parties over the last few days to deliver the gifts to the hundreds of persons who made handmade angels from the Sister Basilia Center, District Nursing Home, Mental Health Foundation, Player Development, UJIMA, post-Irma shelter and the foster children under protective custody.
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