Biscuit fun at local care centre
The boy cookies were ‘dressed’ in buttoned shirts or T-shirts, shorts and ties or bow-ties; while the girls were outfitted with lovely dresses or tops and skirts and given bright red lips, nice hair and colourful bows.
Residents and staff members of Rand Aid’s Ron Smith Care Centre (RSCC) did the giving this Mandela Day when they baked cookies for a nearby youth centre.
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On July 18 busy hands and happy hearts characterised the residents and staff’s full-day bake-a-thon.
Almost 140 home-baked and decorated gingerbread biscuits were donated to Refilwe Legae Home and the Ikemeleng Community Youth Centre in Alexandra.
The morning was spent mixing and rolling out the dough and using cookie cutters to create the distinctive gingerbread people.
Creativity was unleashed in the afternoon, as the decorators set about giving each gingerbread person a unique identity.
The boy cookies were ‘dressed’ in buttoned shirts or T-shirts, shorts and ties or bow-ties; while the girls were outfitted with lovely dresses or tops and skirts and given bright red lips, nice hair and colourful bows.
“This was a wonderful project showing that frail older persons needing care can also reach out and give care to others, which is one of the principles of the Eden Alternative,” said Zabeth Zühlsdorff, Rand Aid’s manager of services and the advance division.
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“It is also very fitting that it took place on Mandela Day as reaching out and giving back resulted in a great sense of achievement for our residents.”
Rand Aid’s manager of recreational programmes Debbie Christen said RSCC’s residents and staff thoroughly enjoyed Mandela Day.
She said they were pleased to be able to make the biscuits for the children in Alexandra.
Some of the residents also enjoyed recalling how they used to make gingerbread biscuits for their own children and grandchildren.
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“The children were thrilled and excited to receive the unexpected treats and were happy to know that the ‘gogos’ at RSCC made these biscuits with love, especially for them,” said Debbie.
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