The Good Cake x St. James Settlement
The Good Cake is delighted to partner with St. James’ Settlement, in bringing joy to the elderly living in abject poverty in Hong Kong. As an extension to our commitment to the well-being of the elderly community living in financial difficulty in Hong Kong, The Good Cake will send monthly birthday cakes to the elderly under St. Jame’s Settlement’s care.
Living in abject poverty is difficult, it’s often a choice between paying one’s rent or medicine, food or walking to the journey to save on the bus fare. A celebration of one’s birthday - a celebration of existence hence is pushed aside and often for decades.
Poverty is married not only to a myriad of health issues, but also mental challenges - a loss of dignity, a sense of guilt and shame, extreme loneliness and alienation, chronic stress and anxiety, hopelessness - resulting in quick cognitive decline.
We want to bring hope and joy to the elderly in our community with our birthday cake - what better way to celebrate the grandparent than to share a moment with them, than to tell them that they matter?
I got to visit this grandpa at his home late April and we celebrated his birthday! He said that it’s been years since he’s been celebrated, and that well, life has been hard. What a joy it was that I got to do this, and I’m really thankful for this opportunity.
The Good Birthday Cakes this April
The wonderful volunteers of St. James Settlement and the grandparents they visit with our birthday cake!
The Good Birthday Cakes this month!
Thank you for supporting The Good Cake and our endeavour in providing a better life for those in need. :))
You will soon be able to support The Good Birthday by purchasing our “pay-it-forward” cakes, available at our store page really soon!