When Kapuskasing’s Warm Belly Kitchen publicly celebrated its second birthday recently… coordinator Amanda Rickard mentioned its birthday wish list.
At the top of it was a secondhand stove to be donated to replace one of the two that were showing their age. Someone heard her, and did even better.
“A week ago, we had two brand new stoves delivered and donated,” she says. “So it was a really beautiful thing, and there was a lot of tears that day.”
Like any kitchen, Warm Belly in Kap always needs something, right from small things like tea towels and oven mitts to big items like the stoves.
“We are looking for some bread size mixing bowls,” Rickard notes as the next item on the wish list. “They’re the extra large mixing bowls. They’re about $100-150 each, so you can imagine that we’re not running out to purchase those.”
The kitchen gets no government money towards its once-a-week meal. It depends entirely on private donations of cash and goods.
Hear more from Amanda Rickard in the audio link right here:
