Mittens in the Window at Belfast Community Co-op Is Raising Money for the Belfast Coup Kitchen
Fundraiser Organized by Waterfall Arts Bridge Afterschool Art Club Students Belfast – February 2, 2023 – A display of one-of-a-kind mittens is hanging in the front windows of the Belfast Community Co-op — one mitten for every donation made to the Belfast Soup Kitchen. The Waterfall Arts Bridge Afterschool Art Club has partnered again with the Belfast Community Co-op to raise money for a local non-profit organization that serves the community. The Bridge Afterschool Art Club members chose to raise money this year for the Belfast Soup Kitchen. The Bridge students visited the Belfast Soup Kitchen to learn about what the organization does and learned from Community and Guest Relations Coordinator, Maria Jacobs, that they serve an average of 392 meals daily through a variety of distribution programs. In addition, they also provide an average of 103 supplemental food bags/boxes daily to families in our community. They recruited a team of young artists to decorate more than one hundred paper mittens that can now be found in front of the Co-op registers. Co-op shoppers and owners can “buy” a mitten by making a donation to the Belfast Soup Kitchen and the mitten will be placed in the Co-op window. Hung