Lemon Raspberry Cookies, Chocolate Reese’s Cookies, Caramel Popcorn, Red Velvet Cookies and homemade Oreo Cookies.

Those mouthwatering treats will be a part of Saturday’s “East Idaho’s Largest Bake Sale Benefiting Young Girls in Africa.” The event is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the CAL Ranch parking lot at 530 N. Second East in Rexburg.

Money donated to the cause covers the cost of providing feminine hygiene kits and sewing machines to young women living in Africa.

Bakers from throughout southeast Idaho from Blackfoot to Idaho Falls to Rigby to Rexburg to St. Anthony to Ashton are providing the treats.

“We just need the public to come buy it all,” said organizer Constance Haworth, who happens to own the award-winning Rexburg Cakes. “It’s going to be awesome.”

Currently 55 bakers are scheduled to participate, but more are invited to bring their treats to Saturday’s bake sale, she said.

“It’s a big, long line of goodies. It’s going to be an amazing bake sale,” Haworth said. “There will be pretty much any yummy thing you can think of. I’m expecting over 4,000 baked goods. It’s going to be huge.”

Haworth hopes the bake sale will whip up $65,000.

“I figure if you shoot for the moon, you’ll land among the stars,” she said. “If everybody comes out and buys something for $1, that will reach $65,000. We’ll have a population boom with the college kids coming back. Sixty-five thousand dollars is reasonable. We can raise that in one day.”

Once the money is donated, Haworth will use it to purchase fabric to be given to Peggy Jessmore of Village Threads and Laura Kelley of the Life Together Alliance. Both women routinely venture to Africa to provide the hygiene kits.

“They’re going to be purchasing some sewing machines for their sewing center in Kisii, Kenya,” Haworth said. “It will be self-sustaining, and the girls will be learning a skill.”

Haworth is no stranger to fundraisers as during the fall of 2024, she held a bake sale to raise money for victims of Hurricane Helene.

“We raised almost $27,000, and that was amazing,” Haworth said. “We’re hoping to do a lot of good for these young girls.”

As the mother of five daughters, Haworth says that it’s ridiculous that any young woman would have to stop her education once she reaches puberty.

“My Heart is really into this,” she said. “I can’t imagine what it is having to drop out of school over something so normal and natural as beginning a menstrual cycle. It’s heart wrenching they have drop out.”

Haworth said that the African teens are willing to wash out their hygiene items every month.

“They’re tickled to get the kits and are happy to do it,” she said. “We don’t have any understanding of what real poverty looks like or not having resources. We’re very blessed to live in the country we live in.”

Everyone has a responsibility to use their abilities and skills to help those in need and especially the children, Haworth said.

“Anybody who we see is hurting — if we have talents, time and resources, we can help,” she said. “I feel we should help. This is a place I’ve found where I have resources, talents and time to do something to benefit these girls.”

For more information call Haworth at 208-970-8521.