GENEVA – Standing side-by-side in a bright kitchen, 16-year-olds Stephanie Condon and Amy Haboush worked to prepare two soups full of fresh, nutritious ingredients.

“We’re soup buddies today,” Amy said, chopping an onion.

She and Stephanie regularly cook in the Roquette Innovation Center kitchen in far east Geneva. As volunteers for the Fox Valley Food for Health Project, the Geneva High School juniors are among other teens who together prepare a week’s worth of meals for medically challenged patients and their families.