Thank You UPS!

Tomorrow is HSP’s first distribution day of our Feed the Kids program this summer! 100 families will come and pick up over 10 tons of groceries to help feed and support them through the month of June. HSP is grateful for the volunteers of UPS of Carol Stream who came in and helped with last minute preparations. The 9 energetic volunteers helped sort bread and meat as we busily prepared for our big day tomorrow.

Not only did these volunteers help with Feed the Kids, they are also regular volunteers who come in and help in the preparation for our monthly Senior Citizen Project Delivery Days as well. We thank UPS of Carol Stream for the continuous support that they provide. Without their help, many of the great things that HSP does would not be possible. We look forward to seeing you again soon!

Summer Birthday Boxes

Today marked the last delivery of birthday boxes for the school year to one of our partner schools. With the help of our wonderful volunteers Bill and Dean, HSP was able to distribute birthday boxes to Lake Park Elementary in Addison, who we have been partnered with for several years now. Head Start programs and elementary schools like Lake Park have 80% or more of their students below the poverty line and work with HSP throughout the year for our Children’s Birthday Project. This project provides kids of low-income families with a birthday box filled with toys, books, school supplies, and party supplies to celebrate their special day.  In preparation for school letting out for the summer, HSP has distributed all boxes for summer birthdays to our partnering schools. Lake Park received 43 birthday boxes today! This would not have been possible without the help of our volunteers who wrapped presents and packed boxes. Thank you for giving your time and effort to this project.

Wrappers Needed

Summer is finally here, and HSP is looking for some wonderful people to become volunteer wrappers. Throughout the summer, HSP is attempting to stay ahead of the game and wrap gifts for hundreds of the 925 children served by our Children’s Birthday Project. To do this, we need the help of volunteer wrappers. The wrappers tell us how many children they would like to wrap gifts for, and they receive bags for each child, full of gifts which our volunteers take home to wrap. Once they are finished, our wrappers bring the gifts back to HSP, where we put together the birthday boxes. It takes so much effort to get the boxes put together and wrapped, and HSP would not be able to do it if it were not for our fantastic volunteers. If you are interested in being a volunteer wrapper, or if you have any questions about volunteering, please contact us at 630-221-8340, or email us at hsp@humanitarianservice.org. 

Thank you, Human Race Supporters and Giving DuPage

We here at HSP are feeling incredibly blessed, and it is all thanks to those who gave their time to help us out. Yesterday, at the Giving DuPage check presentation, HSP received the $2,537.50 raised by our supporters through the Human Race, the 5k in which employees of HSP and many of our supporters participated on April 25th.  We would like to say thank you to those who put their time and energy into the race, as runners, walkers, and donors. The funds will be split between our Senior Citizen Project and our Children’s Birthday Project.  The funds for our Senior Citizen Project will fully sponsor two seniors. This will help to provide them with nutritious groceries and other necessities for an entire year. The funds for our Children’s Birthday Project will help sponsor about 17 children. This will help to provide each of them a “birthday box” full of toys, games, books, school supplies, and party supplies. This money will make an incredible difference in the lives of those we serve, and it is all thanks to the dedicated HSP supporters and our hardworking friends at Giving DuPage that made this event possible. 

Thank You Lexis Nexis!

Today HSP was delighted to host 8 lively volunteers from Lexis Nexis. Lexis Nexis has volunteered with HSP many times before and we were excited to see them again. They helped for 3 hours to package 150 boxes for the families in our Feed the Kids Project. These boxes will be given to families in July and contain non-perishable meals and snacks to support them through the month. Families in the program have their fist pick-up date beginning next Wednesday June 8th.
Along with the boxes of non-perishables, the families will also receive meat, fresh fruits and vegetables, and other items. We wish to thank Lexis Nexis and all the other wonderful volunteers who graciously gave their time to help needy families in this program and we hope to see you again soon!

School Supplies

Now that June is here HSP is starting its annual School Supply Drive program. HSP collects supplies for over 3,000 low-income children throughout DuPage and Kane counties. In August we will be sending supplies to support the DuPage Regional Office of Educations’ “Back to School” and Kane County’s “Project Backpack”. We will also be sending supplies to a number of local schools with high populations of poverty. Children enrolled in our Children’s Birthday Project will also receive school supplies in their birthday boxes throughout the year.
   We have a great need for the following items:

	v     Backpacks v     Binders v     Writing Utensils v     Post-It Notes v     Index Cards v     Highlighters v     Rulers		v     Notebooks v     Folders v     Paper v     Colored Pencils v     Crayons v     Glue v     Markers

 

If you are interested in donating or have any questions please contact HSP by calling 630-221-8340 or by emailing hsp@humanitarianservice.org.

Thank You Wheaton Warrenville South Key Club!

Last Friday, HSP was delighted to receive a wonderful donation of paper products from the Key Club at Wheaton Warrenville South High School. They collected enough facial tissue, paper towels, and toilet paper to fill an entire SUV. Every month HSP distributes hundreds of these paper products to the seniors enrolled in our Senior Citizen Project. Thank you Key Club for thinking of others even with the end of the school year approaching when it is so busy!

It takes a lot of support to fulfill this need every month and we have a particular need for facial tissue. If you would like to help donate paper products please contact HSP by calling 630-221-8340 or by emailing hsp@humanitarianservice.org.