“Of course, children really like it when the cake looks nice, it’s just the way it is, but you definitely don’t have to think:” Oh dear, I have to be able to register. Especially sign up if you can just bake a nice cake, “Ashkol assures potential hobby bakers.
The file with bakers is very large and according to her it is not bad if you can sometimes bake a cake very much. “Who knows, you might be the match for that call,” she says. Delivering the cake is the best moment of the process. “Especially when the child is at home and sees the cake.”
Shame in families
Given the circumstances within the family, the atmosphere can sometimes also be somewhat ‘businesslike’, because families sometimes be ashamed. “It’s not the easiest situation for parents,” she explains. There can also be another explanation. “But I can imagine that they think: it is a company that arranges this for us.”
That is not the case: volunteers are asked not only to bake and bring their creation, but also to buy the ingredients themselves. That is why the hobby bakers not only have the skills to make a cake, they also have a big heart. Ashkol: “They do it purely to do something for someone else.”