Community Service Project '10-11 Info below. Our 2011-12 CSP planning is underway. Stay tuned!
For the local
portion of our Community Service Project this
year, we have been supporting the Vancouver Lookout Emergency Aid
Society. This is a non-profit charitable organization that
provides non-sectarian lay services to homeless adult men and women who
cope
with a wide variety of challenges, including mental illness, mental
handicaps,
medical problems, physical disabilities, social dysfunctions and
substance
abuse. Lookout has been providing solutions for homelessness since 1971.
We created 48 bags of essential items and brought them to Lookout to be distributed to people in difficult circumstances. Many thanks to all those who made this possible by donating funds or items for the kits.
Items included were:
Soap Shampoo/Conditioner
Toothpaste Toothbrush
Dental Floss Band-Aids
Antibiotic
cream
Lip balm Feminine
hygiene products
Comb and brush
Emergency blankets Hot packs for hands New gloves,
hats, socks and underwear
Community
Service
Project '09-10
YAY! From our in-house fundraiser and the Christmas Worship offering, we
netted $1650 for this service project! Thanks to all of you who
contributed!
As our local community Service Project in '09-10, we
again created 40 bags of essential items. We delivered these to the Lookout
Emergency Aid Society to be distributed to their clients and others
in need.
For the globalportionof
our
Service Project in ’09-10 we chose two organizations to support: Kiva and
Partners in the Horn of Africa.
Kiva
Kiva is a
micro-credit organization through which people can make small loans to
economically-challenged entrepreneurs around
the globe. As the loans are repaid, they may be returned to the lender
or used
to make a new loan. As of November 2009,
Kiva had facilitated over $100 million in loans.
Spiritual
Essentials made 13 loans for a total of $435 in July of 2010. Loan
recipients
include a sewing collective in the Dominican
Republic, a construction collective in Sierra Leone, a corn farmer in
Togo who is a father of 4, a pig farmer in Cameroon who is a mother of
7, and a husband and wife team of
vegetable farmers in Cambodia with 8 children.
Partners in
the Horn of Africa is a non-denominational Canadian charity that works
in Ethiopia to
rebuild communities through reforestation, construction, and schooling.
100% of
all donations go directly to aid projects in Ethiopia, and the villages
receiving support contribute 15-20% of project costs, usually in the
form of
labour.
Recent
projects include the creation of 'Scholarship House', a home for rural
orphans
that allows them to continue to attend school, and a planting of 65,000
trees
in an area that had been completely arid.
Spiritual
Essentials contributed $350 to the Partners in the Horn of Africa in
July of
2010.
For our
community service project in '08-09, we put together 40 bags and a
collection of essential items that were distributed to people in need on
the Downtown Eastside. Thank you to all of you who contributed to
this project.
