| We
are often asked how an individual
or group of individuals can
assist the work of bringing peace to
the lives of people in desperate
situations. We make this list as a
partial reply. |
| 1. |
Pray,
really pray for us and our people. |
| 2. |
Make
some sandwiches and bring them to our
office. (we'll come get them). |
| 3. |
Make
cookies or purchase fruit for us to
distribute. |
| 4. |
Come
and help us give out the things on the
street. |
| 5. |
Buy
warm gloves for the winter time for
our people-Kids too. |
| 6. |
Mentor
a child or teenager. |
| 7. |
Work
in our office for a couple of hours a
week. |
| 8. |
Drive
our van to pick up donated goods. |
| 9. |
Invite
us to speak to a group you belong to. |
| 10. |
Buy
some soda or juice for us to give to
the people. |
| 11. |
Support
a child going back to school with a
set of clothes and shoes. |
| 12. |
Adopt
one of our kids for Christmas
presents. |
| 13. |
Help
us get good furniture and household
things for evicted families who are
having to start over again. |
| 14. |
Bring
small packages of food for families
with little. |
| 15. |
Help
a young mother with things needed for
the baby. |
| 16. |
Get
blankets and quilts for the homeless. |
| 17. |
Buy
towels, wash clothes and linens for
the needy. |
| 18. |
Become
informed about welfare reform as it
affects real people. |
| 19. |
Become
a volunteer Woman to Woman Friend. |
| 20. |
Tell
others about us. |
| 21. |
Become
a Buddy for a homeless person and
supply them with shoes, socks personal
care items on a one to one basis. |
| 22. |
Buy
a child a pair of shoes. |
| 23. |
Get
tickets for us to Sporting Events, the
Circus, Disney on Ice, etc. |
| 24. |
Help
a woman in recovery get a job. |
| 25. |
Take
a woman in recovery for a lunch, a
hairdo, a movie. |
| 26. |
Take
a recovering family to your parish
festival. |
| 27. |
Pay
for a spiritual retreat for a woman in
recovery. |
| 28. |
Teach
a class to our recovering women on
typing, the computer, using office
equipment or something else you feel
they would enjoy. |
| 29. |
Teach
a recovering woman to BUDGET and live
within the budget. |
| 30. |
Buy
a basketball for an abused or
neglected child. |
| 31. |
Let
us know if there is a gift or talent
you want to use. |
| 32. |
Send
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. |
| 33. |
Pray
some more. |
| 34. |
Help
us pay tuition for a child to attend a
better school. |
| 35. |
Get
us on your parish giving tree if you
have one at Christmas. |
| 36. |
Take
one of our families to a parish prayer
event. (Mass is usually too strange
and long for them). |
| 37. |
Invite
and take a recovering woman to coffee
and talk about the meaning of faith in
your life. Invite her to your women's
prayer group. |
| 38. |
Ask
the children in your school to collect
soap, tooth paste, mouth wash and
other personal care items for our
people. |
| 39. |
Ask
your Confirmation candidates
to take up a collection and make
sandwiches for us to give out-once,
twice, more than twice! |
| 40. |
Donate
a bed and mattress set for a family.
Twin size is best. |
| 41. |
We
have NO SPACE for
storage. But, if you have good, usable
furniture that you can donate call us
and if we have a family we know needs
it we will take it. |
| 42. |
If
you have a pick-up and will drive it
for us to pick up things become one of
our movers and shakers! |
| 43. |
If
you are young and strong and can
volunteer to help move let us keep
your name on file and call you when
needed. |
| 44. |
Donate
used Sport jerseys, T-Shirts etc. that
are popular. |
| 45. |
Have
older teens come and give out the food
and drink with us, visit with our
young folk. |
| 46. |
Pray
some more! |
| 47. |
Send
even more
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ |
| 48. |
Get
your parish, your group, your
organization to take one night a month
and supply the food and drink and come
to help us give it to the people. |
| 49. |
0ur
kids are constantly asking for: Bikes,
electronic games(with the batteries)
Teddy Bears, Candy and Sweet things,
Nike shoes, SODA, footballs and
basketballs, anything
with Michael Jordan
on it. |
| 50. |
Anything
small children can ride safely (e.g.
tricycles, plastic trucks etc.) |
