St. Raphael Church Provides Saintly Support to HSP

Yesterday, Humanitarian Service Project received a very exciting visit from our friends at St. Raphael Catholic Church in Naperville. Over the weekend, the members of the church engaged in a Parish-wide “Day of Service” in which they would participate in a number of different service projects at different stations. We at HSP were thrilled to have one of the areas of service devoted to wrapping the gifts for twenty five of the needy children served in our Children’s Birthday Project. With each of the children receiving 6 new books and 6-10 new toys, this means that the Parishioners at St. Raphael wrapped between 300 and 400 gifts through this project alone.

However, this was not the only wonderful service St. Raphael provided for the impoverished children and seniors we serve. When the wrapped gifts were dropped off at our Carol Stream Center yesterday, we were pleasantly surprised that HSP was the focus of not one, but two of the areas of service for the Day of Service.  St. Raphael members created 40 personal care packages for needy seniors in our Senior Citizen Project. They clearly had fun in making these nice, handy kits, as all of them were individually decorated and included lotions, conditioner, shower gel, soap, and shampoo. Other great items dropped off by St. Raphael Church included a donation of wrapping paper, some much needed toilet paper for the seniors, and even new gifts for needy children.

This outpouring of support from St. Raphael will help HSP fulfill a number of different needs of the impoverished seniors and children in our programs. We wish to thank everyone at St. Raphael, who participated, particularly Anne Hillebrand, Director of Service Ministry at St. Raphael, who coordinated the event.