Have you walked a day in the life of someone who’s homeless or living in poverty?

What if you had to walk a mile in the shoes of women facing the daily challenges of finding childcare, safe housing, and support in recovery? Those are the real-life barriers many women in our community face every day—and next week, you’ll have the chance to walk a mile in their shoes with House of Bread.

ROANOKE, Va. – A Roanoke nonprofit dedicated to changing the lives of formerly incarcerated women say its services are more important now than ever before. Pounds of baked goods being mixed, cooked and bagged in a matter of hours is the standard for volunteers and students at House of Bread. “We bake bread and granola and cookies and brownies and that sort of thing,” House of Bread’s Co-Founder Lisa Goad said. There’s a lot of barriers, and we don’t, as a community, do a great job of supporting them,” Goad said. House of Bread says they were able to make 100 pounds of granola and chocolate ginger cookies for the holiday season.