The committee met this weekend and started to evaluate the success of the first project as well as look towards the future of a second project. One of the highlights of the meeting was being able to watch the video of our friend in the Dominican Republic accompanying the container through to Grace Children's Hospital in Haiti. It was wonderful to see the container reach its destination. Here is a portion of the video. The rest will be added shortly.
We are hoping to release information in the next few weeks about a second project, so stay tuned.
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Thank you to everyone who supported us in our endeavour to send relief to earthquake victims in Haiti. Our first container of top priority supplies has been shipped! Stay tuned for information regarding it's passage, arrival and delivery, as well as details of container #2.
Other Ways to Help
1. Contact schools and see if one can bring in soap, another bring in buckets, one bring in tarps, one bring in toothbrushes, etc...... the list attached is what we're after
4. Contact stores for donations of items on our Wish List.
2. Find people who sew to make cloth bags about 18" square.
3. Find people who knit or sew to make blankets.4. Contact stores for donations of items on our Wish List.
5. If you drive, sometimes we need volunteers to do pick-up of items to be delivered to the warehouse.
6. Contact seniors’ places for canes, crutches, walkers
7. Fundraise for the next container to meet the needs of children, orphanages, caregivers.....
8. Collect CanadianTire money in the community, count it, and spend it on tarps, tents, sleeping bags, camping pots, buckets
9. Convert your Shopper's Optimum points (or other customer affinity points) into the sterile medical supplies, diapers, etc.
10. Recruit companies with affinity points to double the supply of materials by matching the points/materials donated by customers
EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS!Oakville Beaver Article
Here is a wonderful article in Friday's Oakville Beaver.
Video of Dominicans bringing containers of supplies to Haitians
This is a video sent to us by our friends in the Dominican who have already taken across containers to Haiti. We have worked with them often in the Dominican and their hearts are so big. Check it out!
DONATION WISH LIST
For more information:
·Judy Warrington, Committee Chair
@ 905-338-2304 or judy@goseedo.ca
If you prefer, cheque donations:
Made payable to "RCOT Foundation"
(Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar Foundation)
Please specify HAITI CONTAINERS on your cheque.
Mailed to: Containers of Hope for Haiti
313 Beechfield Road, Oakville, L6J 5H9
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