Teaching baking to HIV positive children

RC Calcutta Presidency, RID 3291, conducted a baking workshop for HIV-infected children at the Arunima Hospice to give them skills in whipping up cookies in various flavours and selling the bakery products, which will fetch them regular income.

The club equipped the hospice with two ovens, a mixer and other essential baking tools for the workshop. In no time, “the children mastered the baking skills and started making cookies on their own which were sold from a display table during church hours. All the cookies were sold out in no time,” said Sangita Jain, club president.

After seeing the children earning an income from their newly acquired skills with joy and pride on their faces, “we are inspired to plan more workshops at the hospice, thus continuing our efforts to bring smiles and joy in the lives of the inmates,” she said.