December 2017 – Newsletter
Hope you had a great holiday season and a wonderful New Years! We wish you all a very happy 2018!
We are grateful to our volunteers, donors and supporters. Thanks to all of you for making our year rousing success! Because of your support we were able to bring smile on many more people who are in need and help children and youth to acquire values and skills that they can rely on throughout their lives. We are able to expose our volunteers to learn to feel, think and act with respect from themselves and for others.
A fresh new year is once again upon us. It’s the time to be thankful for the blessings of the past year and to take bundle of all our accomplishments. At the same time, New Year 2018 is a brand new year to start afresh and continue to be strong, and yet another chance to do everything we would want to do this year too…We strongly believe “Together we can do it!!!”
Our Achievements since March 2015: 10,000 + volunteer hours; 16,630 meals served; 6,000 books donated for 4,200 students; 58 minor human trafficking victims supported.
Here is a summary of the activities that our volunteers participated in December 2017.
Total hours as a team we put together 345 volunteer hours for December month.
December 1st: Community Outreach: Annual Holiday Gift sorting event. San Jose, CA
Volunteer sorted huge pile of donated clothes and bagged by the category for needy to pickup.
December 1st, 8th, and 15th – “Friends Together” Educational session with Special Needs at PRAGNYA, San Jose, CA
December 1st – Arnav’s Eagle Project – Decorated Christmas Tree, San Jose, CA
December 2nd – Community Outreach – @UMC Garden, Sugar Land, TX
December 2nd : Shining Smiles, Houston, TX
Holiday Cards for their Special Friends Little Hearts Learning Centre wishing them happiness,joy & Smiles this holiday season and all through out the coming new year!!
Little Hearts Learning Center is our partnering Institute of our Project Shining Smiles.
December 2nd: Community Outreach – Helping out at public library with book sale event. San Jose, CA
December 2nd: Community Outreach – Community Gardening. San Jose, CA
December 2nd: AnnaPurne – Meal sponsorship by Kotaru Family for children rescued from abuse and trafficking. HELP -Asha Sadan, India
Kotaru family celebrate their children’s Snigdha and Aditya’s birthday’s by sponsoring meal for needy children.
December 3rd, 10th and 17th: “Friends Together” FUN session with Special Needs at PRAGNYA, San Jose, CA
December 3rd: Gift of Joy – Toy & Candy Drive for children in Mexico, Houston, TX
We have collected 205 new & gently used toys, gift wrapped them and made 200+ candy bags for the underprivileged children in Mexico. This is a unique project run by the Christ Church SugarLand Ministry for the benefit of underprivileged children in Mexico.
December 3rd: Community Outreach – Fun time with children from low-income communities, San Jose CA
December 4th: Community Outreach – Kicked off toy drive for patients and siblings at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital – Stanford, San Jose- CA
December 5th: AnnaPurne – Meal sponsorship by Mullapudi Family for children rescued from abuse and trafficking. HELP -Asha Sadan, India
December 8th: Community Outreach – Bollywood work session by Anika at public library. San Jose- CA
December 9th: Community Outreach, Tech by Teens for Seniors, Campbell, CA
December 9th: Community Outreach – Community Planting at Enlighten Preschool, San Jose, CA
December 10th: Feeding Friends – Cooking and Serving at homeless shetler, San Jose, CA
December 10th: Community Outreach, Tech by Teens for Seniors, Campbell, CA
December 10th: Community Outreach – Arts and crafts with children from low income communities, San Jose CA
December 10th: Community Outreach – Arnav’s Eagle Project- Making winter care backs for homeless. San Jose, CA
December 16th: Community Outreach. Tech by Teens to senior citizens, Santa Clara, CA
December 17th : Community Outreach – Holiday crafts at public library, San Jose, CA
December 18th : Community Outreach, Clothing drive for Rohingya, San Jose, CA
Kicked off clothing drive for for refugees in Bangladesh in collaboration with SpaandaB
December 21th: Community Outreach – Collected toys drop off at Stanford, CA
We have successfully wrapped up our toy drive for children at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital #LPCH #Stanford and delivered at Stanford. Very proud and thankful to our volunteers for going out of their way to make drive successful. Our heart felt thanks to all donors for their generosity. We are able to collect $3000 dollars worth of toys including gift cards. #LPCH is very happy and appreciated volunteers for their efforts and thanks donors for contributions.
December21st: AnnaPurne – Meal sponsorship by Vasantha Jayakumar for children rescued from abuse and trafficking. HELP -Asha Sadan, India
Vasantha celebrated her nephew’s birthday by sponsoring meal to needy children.
December 22nd: AnnaPurne – Meal sponsorship by Dudyala family for children rescued from abuse and trafficking. HELP -Asha Sadan, India.
December 24th: AnnaPurne – Meal sponsorship by Nair family for children rescued from abuse and trafficking. HELP -Asha Sadan, India
December 26th : AnnaPurne at HELP Asha Sadan, India
Katragadda family celebrated their son’s birthday with Asha Sadan children by sponsoring full day meals.
