It's that time of the year to help the unfortunate ones and collect food. Spanish for Success is collaborating with some local volunteers, markets, shops, and stores to help collect some canned goods for 2008. In the new year 2009 we will try to keep the spirit going by also collecting kids shoes to donate to other poorer countries, plus also go out on a monthly basis to hand out brown bag food to the homeless.
This section is for the donors who supported our drive. We wanted to say THANK YOU!!
-The customers of the markets and shops who were kind enough to help donate goods, while we were out there doing the food drive.
-The Fung Family for bringing in a bag full of goods x2 -Alan Legaspi donating bag full of goods. -Rosie Lacsina donating bag full of goods. Plus donated monetary for Brown Bag Foods - Sharon Adachi donating bag full of goods - Jane D. Smith Donated clothing goods - Angelica Pascual Donated canned goods -Alma Queharro Donated canned goods -Katrina Dealdo donated hygiene goods -Tania Baeter Donated bag of goods - Fumi family (Elaine) - Ruby Johnson Donated Food Goods - Kisha Malika Lawson Donated Monetary
In the last few days I have been working on approaching super markets and smaller markets. Plus I have creative this oh so creative flier. Well, not really. I just whipped up something simple for now so I can focus more energy on actually having a location let us pass fliers to donate goods for the cause.
So here it is, the first flier.
If anyone would like to take on a task on enhancing our flier, please feel free. I would welcome the help :)
11/7/2008 Paul Kemp has been working on the new look flier. After the first one it, def. need a new look. After all, I just whipped it up within 5 min. The new one has a better look and feel. Check it out.
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Ms. Laura Zayas was born in Puerto Rico. An enthusiastic academic, she currently holds two Bachelor Degrees; one in International Relations and the other in French, both from Tufts University.
She also holds two Master's Degrees; one in Education of Foreign Languages from UCLA, and the other in Spanish Literature and Linguistics from Cal State, Fullerton.
Greetings fellow blog readers, this is Russo. Tis the season for giving, and it’s time again to coordinate another food drive for the community, and now medical supply, and kids shoes drive. This year we have new volunteers working with us, and want to thank them for taking the time to do so. Read some of the volunteer profiles in this blog. In the past I have personally worked with the LA Food Bank on a solo project, but did not really get good results with collecting canned goods. As time passed, I have realized that in order to get a better response from donators, I have to be able to work with volunteers to help spread the word, plus to go out to major super markets or stores and collaborate on this project. So this year, we are going on our small “campaign” to try and collaborate with the local community business. So wish us luck!!
Food Drive 2008, this year will be different, hopefully bigger and better! To start off, we have listed the objectives below on our plans to get the project going.
1)We need volunteers from the LA region to help coordinate with local super markets, shoe store for kids, or pharmacy store. Volunteers will collaborate on donation drive in front of business facilities. They will need to contact the business facility to ask for permission to set up a small booth or table to target passing customers.
2)Volunteer times can vary from 4-8 hours per week. Check this blog for specific times on when we plan to go out into the business facilities.
3)We are looking for canned foods, medical supplies, un-used kids shoes, or non-perishable goods.
4)Most of the canned foods will be forwarded to the LA food bank. Medical supplies will be forwarded to non-profit organizations abroad, kids shoes will be forward to a non-profit organization based in Houston Texas.
We are working with the medical connect community bloggers and friends to collaborate with medical supply donations for third world countries. The idea is to help collect supplies such as gauzes, tapes, bandages, anti-septic, anything that is non-perishable, or does not expire. These supplies will be handed to medical organizations abroad who are currently volunteering their time to aid the sick and unfortunate.
We want to thank you for taking the time to read this blog/message, if you or anyone you know is interested in working with us for the up-coming donation campaign, please feel free to forward this link to them ** http://2008fooddrive.blogspot.com/2008/11/food-drive-2008.html ** Lets make the world a little better by sharing and caring. Anything is possible, when we make an effort to.
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