WRAPPERS NEEDED!!

 

 

WRAPPERS NEEDED!!!

I mean WRAPPERS, not RAPPERS. However, if you want to pick-up birthday gifts to wrap and you want to sing while you wrap them, that is OK too! We really are in need of your help. We have about 60 bags of toys from the Children’s Birthday Project that need to be wrapped for all of the upcoming Birthdays. If anyone out there has some free time on their hands, this is a wonderful way to help with HSP. If you think this may fit into your schedule, please call Sharon at (630) 221-8340. Thank you in advance to all of our volunteers that rise to these occasions which are so important to the work we do at HSP!

Examples of beautiful wrapping with ribbons

HSP ON THE AIR, ON THE TUBE AND ONLINE!

The Humanitarian Service Project got its message about serving the needy children, seniors and families out to a world wide audience Tuesday morning.

Floyd Kettering, Co-Founder and CFO, and Paul Yambrovich, Community Outreach Coordinator, were guests on Joy Curry’s morning show on WETN Radio. The interview was also carried live on Comcast Cable TV and the world wide web.

Floyd and Paul described the history and mission of HSP and highlighted our current need for sponsors for both the Senior Citizen Project and the Children’s Birthday Project. They also talked about the HSP’s plans to double the volume of food and gifts they distribute by expanding the warehouse at the Center.

Joy was such a gracious host and generously devoted 25 minutes of her show to share with her listeners why the HSP is such a worthwhile charity to be involved with. She seemed truly touched by Floyd and Paul’s heartfelt stories of how the HSP helps seniors and children in need. We are so grateful to Joy Curry and the entire WETN staff for opportunity to reach so many around the world with our message.

Books, Books and more Books!!!

 

Books, Books and more Books!!!

Tom Keefer of Willow Creek DuPage knows kids need more than toys. Toys are good, but books are better!!  Tom brought to HSP 10 boxes of wonderful brand new books. He brought dictionaries, books of poetry and thesaurus’s. Tom wants our kids going out into the world well equipped with knowledge, proper grammar and correct spelling. We thank Tom and Willow Creek of DuPage for this wonderful gift.

                                        

Jerilyn Novak

HSP Welcomes Jerilyn Novak!! Jerilyn will be getting her field experience at HSP. Jerilyn currently attends Elmhurst College. She has also attended Illinois Wesley University in Bloomington, IL. Through her college experiences, she is accomplishing the completion of a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Bachelor’s degree in English. Jerilyn also assists us at the HSP offices with her fluent ability to speak Spanish and with her detailed writing skills.  HSP reaches out to many colleges offering the internship experience.  Internships usually have a duration of about 3 months.  Again, we welcome Jerilyn!

A New Bike Just in Time for Spring!!

 

 

Happy Birthday!!  This little boy was so happy when we rolled out his brand new bike.  He received his Birthday Box, but we were also able to match him up with a bike that was donated.  The timing could not have been more perfect, with the weather warming up, he could not resist taking his brand new bike for a spin around our parking lot before his Dad loaded it into the van.  I think HSP made one more little little boys Birthday a hit!!

Monday Morning Food Sorter do great Work!

Our MMFS, were here with bells on eager to help make a difference. Today this dedicated group  created non perishable food bags with:

Bag 1. cookies or candy, 2 main dishes (2 different),2 fruit cans, 1 cracker, 1 ketchup, 1 salty snack.

Bag 2. 1 Rice (boxed or bagged), 1 bag unseasoed Bean, 1 tuna/hamburger Helper, 1 boxed potatoe, 1 pancake mix, 1syrup, 1 onion Dip Jar.

Bag 3.  2 Vegetables, other, 2 Mac & Cheese, 1 pasta Plain, 1 can Green Beans, 2 cans of corn.

Our volunteers for today 

(From Left to Right: Rita Bezdicek, Our brand new volunteer, Mary Persinger, Bob Mancini,, Roland Imes, Dan Bagger, & Marilyn Sweeny)

May peace and love follow you in your footsteps.

Generous Toy Donation

Therese Antuna from the Wheaton Junior Women's Club arrived this morning with 14 boxes and bags of new toys that were donated by the Wheaton-Warrenville South High School's Key Club for our Children's Birthday Project (CBP). The toys will be sorted into age and gender appropriate groups and wrapped by volunteers. They will then be assembled into the 25-30 lb Birthday Boxes that the 700 needy children in the CBP receive the week of their birthday.

Each box contains:

• 6-15 new toys

• 6-7 new books

• 1 new game or puzzle

• stuffed animals, beanie babies

• mini-toys and filler gifts

• school supplies

• PARTY IN A BAG: cake mix, frosting, plates, cups, streamers, balloons, party favors

A sponsorship of only $54 per year buys the child all this, plus the child and all siblings under the age of 15 receive 5-6 Christmas gifts each, plus the entire family is eligible to be enrolled in the summer-time Feed the Kids Project.

Wheaton Junior Women's Club and the Wheaton-Warrenville South High School Key Club members were just at the Center on February 25th for a wrapping party for the CBP. Both groups have been such generous supporters of the HSP's mission and the gifts they brought today are so appreciated since we will be adding at least 50 more impoverished children to the Children's Birthday Project this year.

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If you would like to sponsor a child or group of children in the Children's Birthday Project, please let us know!