Thank You to the Glen Ellyn/Wheaton Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club

HSP would like to thank the Glen Ellyn/Wheaton Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club for creating and donating 20 “party in a bag” kits for the underprivileged children in our Children’s Birthday Project. These kits were dropped off late last week, and contain all of the items needed to throw a fun and exciting birthday party.

Every child enrolled in the Children’s Birthday Project receives a “party in a bag” along with the toys, books, and other gifts in their 20-25 lb. birthday box. The party in a bag kits enable the children to celebrate their special day with items such as cake mix, frosting, balloons, streams, etc. We wish to thank the Glen Ellyn/Wheaton Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club for helping us provide happy birthday memories to these deserving children!

Thanks to Girl Scout Troop 42187 and Meadows

HSP had two wonderful volunteer groups help us finish off this week strong. Yesterday afternoon, we were blessed to have 7 members of local Girl Scout troop 42187 from Glen Ellyn volunteer their time to help us assemble birthday boxes for the underprivileged children enrolled in our Children’s Birthday Project. The girls even brought materials to donate to help make these gifts. The girls were very enthusiastic, and were wonderful volunteers.

In addition to this great group of Girl Scouts, today HSP hosted a group of volunteers from The Meadows Residential. These volunteers helped sort toilet paper for the low-income seniors enrolled in our Senior Citizen Project. This group from Meadows has been periodically volunteering their time for several months now, and they are always a joy to host. We wish to thank these two groups for giving their time to help us better serve the deserving children and seniors in our programs.

Food Items Needed

As the month of February comes to a close, HSP is currently in need of the following non-perishable food items to help needy seniors and children living in poverty:

•  Cereal
•  Oatmeal
• Pancake Mix
• Tuna / Canned Meats
• Pasta / Rice Meals
• Soup
• Canned Fruits and Veggies
• Peanut Butter & Jelly
• Main Means (Chili / Hearty Soup / Beef Stew / etc.)

If you would like to make a difference in the lives of local families and seniors by donating food items, please contact us at 630-221-8340 or email us at hsp@humanitarianservice.org.

Join HSP’s Team at the DuPage Human Race

There are just a few days to receive February pricing to support HSP as a runner or walker at the DuPage Human Race. The Human Race will take place on the morning of April 30^th at the Esplanade in Downers Grove. This event, run by Giving DuPage, is a 5k run/2 mile fitness walk providing people with the opportunity to raise funds for their favorite DuPage charities, including HSP. The fee for race registration increases on March 1^st. If you are interested in registering, please select “Humanitarian Service Project” as the agency you will be representing. All funds raised by HSP from the event will go directly to providing services for the low-income seniors and children in our programs. For more information, or to register, go to: https://www.dupagehumanrace.org/.

Not able to attend? Please consider supporting HSP’s runners and walkers. You can donate here: https://runsignup.com/Race/27820/Charity/2524.

Thank You, Waubonsie Valley High School

Yesterday, HSP received a wonderful donation from Waubonsie Valley High School. For the past several years, the Student Council at Waubonsie has run a school wide “paper drive” asking for donations of toilet paper, facial tissue, and paper towels for the seniors enrolled in our Senior Citizen Project. The school and student council certainly did a great job, as their paper drive filled HSP’s cargo van when our volunteer, Dean Senne, picked it up yesterday.

With 133 low-income seniors relying on our Senior Citizen Project for the paper products necessary to live a healthy lifestyle, these donations will certainly go to good use. We wish to thank everyone at Waubonsie who participated in this donation effort for helping to make a difference in the lives of the deserving seniors HSP serves.

Another Successful Delivery Day

On Saturday, HSP held its monthly “delivery day” to the low-income seniors enrolled in our Senior Citizen Project. There were dozens of volunteers who gave their time either to deliver the groceries to seniors or to help as “loaders” who packed all of the groceries in the cars of the volunteer drivers. Thanks to these volunteers, HSP successfully distributed over 6 and a half tons of groceries to the seniors enrolled in our program.

In total, the Senior Citizen Project provides access to nutritious groceries, such as fresh produce, bread, frozen meat, non-perishables, to 133 impoverished seniors. It is thanks to our Delivery Day volunteers, and other supporters of the program, that enable HSP to provide this much needed service to the deserving seniors in our program. We wish to thank them for their generosity.

Thank You, UPS Volunteers

Today, HSP was blessed to have 7 of our friends from UPS Supply Chain Solutions, in Carol Stream, volunteer their time to help us sort fresh produce and bread for the low-income seniors we serve. Tomorrow is HSP’s monthly “Delivery Day” for the seniors enrolled in our Senior Citizen Project, when our volunteers will deliver 100 lbs. of groceries to the homes of each of the 133 seniors in the program. These volunteers from UPS regularly volunteer their time on the day before each Delivery Day, to help ensure that the deserving seniors we serve receive nutritious produce and bread. We wish to thank them for their steadfast support!