Assembly of Care Packages Continues!
Just finished assembling homeless care bags that are going to take up more space than anticipated in my car. Guess I need to hand them out quicker to free up space! Thanks Maureen and Donna for your help tonight. I'm glad to have also boxed up more care packages for the troops too! The shelves are looking barer.
Getting Ready for the Summer
In preparation for our summer departure, I've been cleaning up All For Helping's "workshop" by creating care packages out of everything that still sits on the shelves. My goal is to pack up the goods and send them off! We are finally able to resume shipping after holding our Memorial Day Fundraiser, thanks again to everyone who came and supported us- it was a great time!
After the summer trip, upon return at the end of the summer, we'll begin collecting and shipping, all over again!
Scout groups the calender is being planned for the fall, so if you'd like to secure your meeting date, send me an email at allforhelping@ymail.com, and I'll get it on the schedule.
For those of you that would like to follow our summer adventure you can at :
(this is the vacation part, troop efforts, and feeding the homeless, all rolled into one blog)
and of course on twitter at : https://twitter.com/#!/allforhelping
Throughout the summer I'll be tweeting clues to our whereabouts. We'll be holding letter writing to the troops in various places, and of course at each, collecting travel size toiletries, bottled water, fresh fruit, and snack items to put in our homeless care packages.
Want to stay more in touch with our whereabouts? Sign up for our Postcard Club, and receive a postcard from each location we visit. The membership dues directly support our feed the homeless initiative!
Had a Great Time At Lopat Community Day
Had a great time at Lopatcong Township Community Day.
Thanks to everyone who stopped in and wrote letters of support to deployed service members.
It was the perfect weather for an outside event, sunny with a breeze, and their was great music too!
We're gearing up to depart on our summer journey. Countdown is on!
We plan to tour some military bases, collect addresses to send to, and feed the homeless along the way.
Follow us on twitter at #allforhelping. We plan to disclose clues as to where we'll be.
So folllow us, find us, and get prizes when you meet us!!
Visit Us at Lopatcong Community Day
This Saturday from 1-8 pm visit us at
Lopatcong Township's Community Day.
We will be set up with stationary and cards to write letters of support to deployed soldiers.
As well as selling smelly jellies, note card sets, and dead sea salts to
fund care packages to the troops and our homeless care bags.
As always wherever we are, we accept donations of:
Travel Size Snacks and Toiletries (to fill care packages)
Ribbons, Cello Bags, and Ziploc Bags (to house care packages)
Unused Cards - All Occasions, Holidays, and Blank
Hope to see you there!
Stinger Sprint
We set up at Greenwich School's Stinger Sprint with our supplies for writing letters of support to deployed soldiers. It turned out to be a beautifully sunny day with a light breeze, perfect weather for a 5K!
Smelly Jellies are an aromatic flame-less air freshener.
Our Bath Salts are made up of imported dead sea salts and european sea salts.
(These are all natural sea salts, not to be confused with the ones featured in the media)
Pretty Note Card Sets of Four
Letter Writing and Vendor Event a Success
We ended the day with much success on Sunday, even after all the rain.
Thanks to everyone who braved the weather to come out and join us.
We had 21 vendors, music, and prizes, and many letters of support to deployed soldiers were written.
There was a picture featured in the Express Times on Monday of some of our letter writers!
We donated the leftover food to Safe Haven in Easton, PA,
with plans to try and help them out throughout the year.
Thanks to the Phillipsburg Masonic Lodge for proving the space and help,
to all of our vendors and crafters, and to all of the local businesses that donated prizes.
We will be posting links to all of our vendors and crafters on our sponsor page shortly as well as updated totals of care packages shipped, now that we have funds to send some more.
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