We provide a vehicle to approach the devastating disease of cancer in a positive, hopeful manner, while strengthening the community.

Student Cooks

We are a unique multi-generational service organization, allowing others to come together to experience the joy of serving and the strength of coming together as a community regardless of age or ability.

Click below to visit our Volunteer page. You can then access and print the forms needed to get started on your journey to serving others.

Yes, I’m Interested in Becoming a Student Cook

Adult Cooks

We help build meaningful relationships amongst all members of the community, providing ways for children, teens and adults associated with a variety of organizations to interact on behalf of those most vulnerable and in need of support.

Adult Volunteer Sign Up

Current VP Adult Cooks can sign up for a shift using the link below.

If you’re interested in becoming an adult cook, click below to visit our Volunteer page to get started!

Yes, I’m Interested in Becoming a Volunteer

Green Aprons

Truly connecting is learning to care for one another, taking time to build relationships, sharing ourselves and our resources to better our community.

Green Aprons are awarded to the Teen and Adult Cooks who volunteer twelve times, or 24 hours, in the kitchen.

Nourishing clients and their families through healthy, nutritious meals.

What‘s Cooking In The Kitchen?

Meet Kira Wynocker, Village Project’s Culinary Director.

A nurse by day, a mother and chef come night, Kira knows the value and potential impact of a wholesome, healthy meal. When she isn’t delivering babies at Cleveland Clinic’s Fairview birthing center, helping women assume the mantle of motherhood, she’s trying to instill the importance and impact of nutrition on her four children. Growing up with two parents who loved to experiment in the kitchen, the passion for food is deeply rooted. From preparation to feast, breaking bread with loved ones has always been important. Being the culinary director at the Village Project gives Kira an opportunity to guide young adults in the kitchen and to share her love with her community.

As Culinary Director, she oversees our kitchen program, designing menus that are both nourishing and delicious. Recipes are carefully selected; they are nutrient dense and are free from white flour and processed sugar.

Along with three complete meals that are delivered weekly to the entire family, clients also receive a wonderful herb and vegetable immunity broth. During periods of treatment, radiation and chemotherapy can diminish a client’s appetite and ability to swallow. Prepared weekly in our kitchen, this broth simmers for hours and provides essential nutrients so critical to maintaining the individual’s strength.

Meals-To-Go Are Here!

See our client menu and carry-out selections listed below!

Stop by Project Shoppe on your way home and pick up a quick and healthy option for dinner tonight! Select Village Project meals are now available for purchase. You can also stock up on our herb and vegetable immunity broth. It’s a perfect base for your next homemade soup or a healthy and hydrating option for those going through treatment who may have little to no appetite.

Fresh entrees are individually packaged and available for $9 each (with protein) or $8 each (for vegetarian). Immunity broth is sold in 32 oz. pouches for $4 per bag. Meals and broth can easily be frozen for later use.

Client Menu & Meals-To-Go*!

March 17, 2020/0 Comments/in Client Menu & Meals-To-Go, Meals-To-Go, PROJECT SHOPPE /by Trish Steiskal

March 17, 2020:

After much thought and prayer, for your safety and in line with the directives of the Governor, the CDC and the board of health, we will be closing the Village Project facility on Thursday, March 19th, until further notice.

However, our goal is to continue to do what we can to provide for our clients in the healthiest, safest way possible. This week, in addition to our freshly prepared meals, we are delivering non-perishable food to nourish you for the next few weeks. The first week in April we will reassess our deliveries of fresh and/or non-perishable foods, based on safety regulations and availability. We will contact you at that time to provide updates and next steps.

These are unusual times and concerning on so many levels. We seek to have faith push aside fear and rest in the reassurance that God is in charge. We pray God’s peace and health upon you all.

We look forward to getting through this crisis as a community and hope to resume our normal carryout and retail business soon!

Gatherings From The Garden

Meet Sherri Reilly, Village Project’s Garden Coordinator

This is Sherri’s 8th year as our Garden Coordinator. With a background in Outdoor Education, and a degree in Elementary Education from Ohio State University, Sherri organizes adult volunteers to help weed and water. She also guides and teaches children twice a week, in every aspect of gardening-prepping soil, weeding, planting, watering, pruning, harvesting herbs and vegetables, cutting flowers, and collecting seeds for a later planting.

“I became involved with Village Project partially, because I lost my mother to cancer when I was 15 and also because it was an organization that provided our entire family an opportunity to volunteer in some way.

Over the years, I have donated much of my time to volunteering. It’s so rewarding to give back to my community and support others in their efforts to do the same. I enjoy gardening, cooking and the outdoors (especially with children), so this is the perfect fit.

My hope is that the children that I work with are learning the joy of serving and helping others, while having fun at the same time.”

Garden Update

Summer is upon us and our garden is flourishing!
We have an abundance of fresh herbs–Parsley, chives, chive blossoms (used in our own specialty chive-blossom vinegar, available soon in Project Shoppe), oregano and tarragon.
Kale, sugar snap peas, radishes and carrots have provided a nice harvest for our cooks in the kitchen!
The children collected seeds from many of our flowers and vegetables last year that are used for this year’s growing season. You can find them available for purchase in our store, Project Shoppe.

Did you know?

Village Project plants, harvests and maintains (8) 4 x 8 ft. organic plots in the Community Garden, located at the corner of Wolf and Forestview Roads in Bay Village.
Every season, Sherri teaches young children, as well as older teens and adults, the basics and joys of gardening.
Flowers, herbs and vegetables are planted from seed, beds are maintained and watered, crops are harvested, then used weekly in our kitchen.
Volunteers gather fresh flowers from our plots that are used to create beautiful bouquets. Arrangements are displayed in vases painted by our younger volunteers, and arrive with weekly meal delivery.
Our volunteers are empowered to utilize their gifts and talents to bring joy, hope, transformation and the healing we all need.