Community Awareness Project

Posted by Beverly Luedke 
on Jan 28, 2016
 
The Community Awareness Project was focused on increasing the awareness of support organizations and needs of our community to our club members, especially our newer members not familiar with the community. This project is also designed to encourage members who may not be able to participate in projects in other way, an opportunity to do so.  Whether it is through donating their used or old blankets/ towels to the animal shelter or gently used clothes no longer worn or used to families in need.  By increasing this awareness, we as project chairs hope our members will become more informed and more involved within the community.
 

This month we are still collecting items for the Blessing Bags which will be handed out to the homeless at Feed My Sheep.  We are collecting items that can be placed in quart size ziploc bags such as chap stick, hand sanitizer, kleenex, socks, personal size shampoo etc.  You can also google "Blessing Bags" for other ideas.

 

In March, we will support Hope House, a local after school program in Belton in partnership with UMHB's United Way organization.   The organization is creating literacy kits for the at-risk elementary aged children at Hope House and are in need of 100 boxes of crayons and 100 new/gently used elementary age story books.  The goal of the Hope House is to build life on life relationships with the children and their parents. 

 

Please bring your items to any of the Altrusa meetings or feel free to call me and we can arrange a pick up.

 

Upcoming Birthday Party

In December, the CAP project provided a Christmas for the Lynch family in Killeen.  The Lynch's were the family that were blessed with very special triplets in March of 2015.  The triplets are now approaching their first birthday and Altrusa Temple will be helping them celebrate.  The Terrace in Salado has kindly offered their facility at no cost for us to hold the party and Jordan Overturf has offered his photography skills to take photos for the family.  If you would like to volunteer your time or help with the birthday party, please contact me.  We are presently planning on having the party the last week of March and after 5 pm so more Altrusans can come and celebrate this SPECIAL occasion with the Lynch's.

 

I also want to take this moment to thank each of you for participating throughout the year in the Community Awareness Project.  So many lives have been touched and I am not only talking about those that we have served.