PHILIPSBURG -As part of K1 Britannia Foundation’s Christmas Angels programme, the K1 team collaborated with Cookies Goodies and More to provide home-baked cookies for St. Martin’s Home.
The idea behind the activity came from St. Martin’s Home activity coordinator Marianne Pantophlet, who indicated the need for more social activities for the home’s clients. Instead of St. Martin’s Home receiving gifts via the Christmas Angels programme, this year the foundations agreed to host a creative and social activity with the elderly.
The event took place on Monday, December 17, when Christian Richardson and Ihndhira Marlin-Richardson of Cookies Goodies and More participated and donated more than 70 cookies 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 icing in various colours 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 glazing different patterns and colours.
“Decorating cookies at St. Martin’s Home was a nice experience. It was especially great because we had some very young volunteers, and the clients of 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 looked to decorate those cookies, but it was nice to interact and speak with the clients about which colours they prefer and then to see them enjoy their cookies afterwards,” said K1 Britannia Programme Manager Iris Hakkens, 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,” K1 Britannia Programme Manager Chiaira Bowers said on Sunday.
The White and Yellow Cross Care Foundation provides guidance and assistance for the elderly, disabled and those in the various districts in St. Maarten. St. Martin’s Home, Sister Basilia Centre and District Nursing are under the foundation’s supervision.
K1 Britannia’s Annual Christmas Angels programme involved clients of Sister Basilia Centre and District Nursing, where persons in the community were 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 from Sister Basilia Centre, District Nursing, Mental Health Foundation, Player Development, UJIMA Foundation, post-Irma shelter and the foster children under protective custody who made handmade angels.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/83921-k1-shares-christmas-spirit-with-senior-home-cookie-programme
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