Good Bitches bakers are trying to make Aotearoa the kindest place on earth.
Good Bitches bakers are trying to make Aotearoa the kindest place on earth.
Home baking is a time-honoured Kiwi tradition for the happiest and saddest of times.
The Palmerston North chapter of Good Bitches Baking has been baking it forward since 2015. It has about 70 volunteers - bakers, drivers, and people who do both.
The chapter bakes for Camellia House, Ozanam House,Palmerston North Women's Refuge, Te Roopu Whakaruruhau O Nga Wahine Māori, Manchester House, and Palmy Revolution. The baking is not for staff or volunteers but for the organisations to distribute to people in need.
The bakers also provide treats for one-off events such as the Tongan relief collection.
Some of GBB's volunteers have been through one of the recipient services and are now in a position to help, the completion of a circle, Palmerston North bitch in charge Monique Spanjaard says.
It's not just about the baking but the thought behind it. Sometimes she gets to meet the people the baking goes to. "They just always look so genuinely pleased and so happy that somebody has thought about them."
The chapter also receives positive feedback from recipients via the distributing organisations, which helps the bakers know they are doing the right thing.
Each month, Good Bitches Baking's 28 chapters deliver more than 1300 sweet treats to about 285 recipient organisations.
Baking is a way of spreading a little kindness to people having a tough time, Spanjaard says. Recipients know someone cares and bakers get a buzz out of making someone's day brighter.
