Baking the world a better place: Birthday cakes for underserved kids
An army of volunteers in the Triangle is baking and delivering birthday cakes to children whose life circumstances have never allowed them to experience a birthday celebration before.
RALEIGH, N.C. — An army of volunteers in the Triangle is baking and delivering birthday cakes to children whose life circumstances have never allowed them to experience a birthday celebration before.
Mashavu Gordon launched Cake4Kids North Carolina two years ago with a mission to let kids know they aren’t forgotten and make sure underserved youth in the Triangle have birthday celebrations worth remembering.
“When you think about being a child, your birthday is supposed to be your special day, and it was really humbling to know that some of these young people, even the teens and young adults that we service, had never had a birthday cake before,” Gordon said.
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