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Club bakes with love
Made with Love makes homemade goods to give to local charities
Michaia Hernandez, Lynn Levitt / Roundup
Made with Love, a nonprofit campus club formed in the fall of 2010 with the goal of making various baked goods for distribution to local charities, started out with two friends baking goods for fun.
“Basically, me and my friend Bri [Bri Hughes, vice president of the Made with Love club] started baking that semester to relieve stress,” said Andrea Murray, the club’s president. “We made ice cream for our first time and random cupcakes.”
From this, the two decided to form a club that would combine two of their favorite hobbies: baking and helping charities.
“We both had been doing charities for most of our lives: planting trees, teaching kids and helping them with their homework,” Murray said. “I volunteered at Kaiser Permanente and [Bri] has done a lot of soup kitchen work.”
The Made with Love club has nine members this year, a small increase from the six of last year.
Angela Hale has been a member of the club since the semester it was founded.
“[I joined the club] to try something new,” said the 27-year-old.
During the holidays last year, the club helped raise money to aid 100 homeless people through the Los Angeles Mission, a non-profit organization that primarily exist to serve those living on Skid Row.
The club’s largest fundraiser in 2010 brought in $300 for Autism Speaks, the world’s leading autism advocacy organization.
“I like being in this club because I love baking,” said 18-year-old club member Ranna Sheikhvand. “You get to do something fun and help other people while doing it.”
Besides selling baked goods, cupcakes are one of the main incentives used to collect canned goods for the hungry. For instance, students are asked to bring canned goods and in return they are given a free cupcake.
Made with Love will be holding their first event of the semester during the Associated Students Organization-sponsored carnival on Thursday, Oct. 13. Any funds they collect from the event will go to the San Fernando Valley Mission Rescue.
The club also plans on holding a number of food drives this semester, according to Sheikhvand.
In addition, they plan on providing food for the homeless during Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, according to Sheikhvand.
The Made with Love club meets every other Friday in room BEH 1309. Their next meeting will be held Oct. 14.
