As a blogger and vlogger, I’m fortunate to meet great people and often try new and exciting products. Sometimes though, some of the products I’m asked to review don’t align or fit with my personal values so I pass on those opportunities, but many fit perfectly and I get really excited to share them with you!!
Have you heard about the WE Day: WE BAKE FOR CHANGE initiative? I’ll be honest, I knew very little about about it before this post (I know some of you are yelling, MICHELLLLLE!!!! IT’S AN INTERNATIONAL SENSATION THAT IS CHANGING THE WORLD!!) Consider this my chance to redeem myself, teach my kids, my husband and hopefully some of you about an amazing opportunity to transform lives while having fun with our kids.
I love baking and cooking with my kids. I think it is one of the best ways to spend quality time as a family. Kids build confidence in the kitchen. Kids learn math in the kitchen. Kids learn to be grateful for the effort others put into making the food they eat.
What’s better than baking with Grandma!? My Mom, the queen of the perfect chocolate cake recipe!
It’s no surprise that WE Day in support of Free the Children decided to use bake sales as a way to truly change the world. Imagine if baking with your kids could change people’s lives, including theirs? Imagine baking with your kids could literally build a school in Kenya? It’s true. Last year the We Bake For Change (an initiative of WE Day) partnered with Robin Hood. What they have accomplished in their first year together is amazing! In their first year of partnership they inspired 700,000 students across Canada to host bake sales that raised money for local and global causes. In 2014 and 2015 school years, over 2200 schools hosted bake sales and raised $330,000!!!! I’m not even kidding!!
Robin Hood has partnered with them for 2016 and we want you to get your school or organization involved! It is so simple and so rewarding. Here’s how it works:
- Register your family, classroom, sports group, or community group at freethechildren.com/webakeforchange. You can REGISTER ANYTIME!! There are amazing tools on the website to help you, including a how to guide, price lists, table tags, and more.
- Get amazing recipes from Robin Hood HERE. My favourite is: GLUTEN FREE BANANA BLUEBERRY LOAF WITH CINNAMON DRIZZLE. (YES ROBIN HOOD HAS GLUTEN FREE FLOUR!!!)
- SHARE! SHARE! SHARE! Tell everyone about your bake sale! Tell your family, friends and share the word on social media!
I’m connecting with my kids school to organize a WE BAKE FOR CHANGE bake sale. I think it would also be great for my sons hockey team and my daughter’s dance class! It’s a win win for everyone!
Kindness and mindfulness can absolutely change the world. Especially when we start with educating our children.
For those that aren’t familiar with Free the Children here is some info on them:
Free The Children is an international charity and educational partner. Our organization is unique among Canadian charities in that it operates collaborative programs both domestically and internationally.
In Canada, the US, and the UK, We Day and We Schools are initiatives of Free The Children that educate and empower young people. We Schools is a yearlong educational program that nurtures compassion in students and gives them the tools to create transformative social change. And We Day is a series of stadium-sized events that celebrate youth making a difference in their local and global communities.
In Africa, Asia and Latin America, we partner with communities to implement Adopt a Village, a holistic, five-pillar international development model designed to achieve sustainable change. Together with local leaders and families, we transform lives with solutions that are adaptive, effective and sustained long term by the community itself.
GET BAKING and send me pics!!!
MF
This post has been brought to you by Robin Hood but the opinions and images are my own.
Does Save the CHildren, ever help “prevent the children”, by educating the parents on contraception?
Seems so cruel to bring babies into extreme poverty.
Just feeding and building schools for them should come after taking care of the parents who seem to not understand how cruel their self indulgent breeding is.