October 2022 Newsletter


 

EnE October 2022 Newsletter

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

 

 


October – Here’s a month of preparation for the winter. EnE volunteers working on providing fun activities, warm food & warm clothing for the unhoused population in the upcoming chilly winter times.

Important Reminders:

  • Volunteer Hours Recording: Please make sure you continue to record your volunteering hours by logging into our new system.
  • Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PVSA): To learn more about the hours required to earn PVSA awards in each age group, go to: https://www.presidentialserviceawards.gov/eligibility
  • Shopping on Amazon: Please use the following link to shop on Amazon.com: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/47-3656395. When you shop using this link, Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to EnE.

Now for a Quick Recap of Our October 2022 Activities

Volunteer of the Month: Amulya Dussa
We are proud to have Amulya Dussa as one of our youth volunteers. Amulya has been volunteering with E&E for three years. She has been consistently tutoring students from the low-income community every week and also actively participating in various activities. Keep working hard and make an impact in the community Amulya.

Please take a moment to listen to an expression of gratitude for EnE from our unhoused friends.

E&E Volunteers helped to make candy bags to distribute at Halloween event at low income community.
E&E is proud to sponsor Halloween event at VPU community San Jose.

Crafty bakers of EnE baked hundreds of homely decadent muffins, cookies, and brownies for East bay unhoused and Family Supportive Housing.

Young tutors had fun teaching their little tutees different subjects, chess, and art. Our volunteers ensure that tutoring programs are culturally responsive and tailored to meet the unique needs of student populations.

EnE volunteers prepare the first meal of the day, a balanced hot breakfast for Eastbay unhoused.

EnE volunteers in action making hearty delicious lunches and dinners (that include, pasta, veg/non-veg/pb&j sandwiches, fruit, snack bars, juice/water) for the needy in our local community.

Volunteers prepared meals and dropped off at Family Supportive Housing and JW house.

Addressing hunger is a moral imperative! EnE volunteers hand out fresh handmade lunch packs to the homeless and destitute, in San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Cruz.

EnE Volunteers at the Gardening Garden2Table event at 200 Taylor Street.

Volunteers participated in Making Strides Against Cancer event at Great America.

STEAM for kids develops creators, thinkers, problem solvers, doers, innovators, and inventors. Exposing kids to simple STEM activities at an early age today sets a foundation for higher learning tomorrow. Our EnE  volunteers conducted STEAM activities for children from low-income communities in San Jose. It’s great to see kids having fun. We had raffles and fun incentives and lunch for participants. Volunteers helped kids have a  fun Halloween event at VPU which brought many smiles.

Knitting caps for cancer patients continues by our young volunteers.

EnE volunteers made greeting cards for children at the hospitals featuring friendly birthday wishes.

Volunteers teamed up to gather and assemble hygiene kits for men and women, adult incontinence underwear, baby diapers and baby wipes, snack packs and also happy birthday bags. Much needed hygiene supplies for the unhoused communities and surprise goodies for children.

Supporting ASHA JYOTHI Handicapped Welfare

EnE’s Global Volunteer Initiatives:
Supporting ASHA JYOTHI Handicapped Welfare

  • EnE volunteers and their families have been wholeheartedly supporting AshaJyothi, a shelter for abandoned special needs kids in India through their generous donations and meal sponsorships.
  • A BIG Thank You to Kavitha Durgi, Fotedar family, Aneeja Abbas family, Kolluru family, Chodavarapu family, Grover family, Masson family, Tirumala family, Madhav family, Yellamraju family and an anonymous donor for food sponsorships to disabled orphaned children. 
    • Please sign-up here if you are interested in sponsoring meals for ~70 special needs kids and their staff of 15 people. We are very happy to share that our anonymous donor is matching two meals for every meal sponsored in the year 2022. Cost: $200 for full-day meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), $80 for just Lunch or Dinner, $40 for breakfast: 
    • https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090948AFAE2AAAF49-2022
    • Payment Info: Use one of the methods below to make a payment (Please note that online transaction fees are charged to E&E, so please include those fees as well.). Please do company matching wherever possible. (Tax-id: 47-3656395)

Important Monthly Reminders:

Instructions on How to Check your Event Sign-up on DonorView:  

  1. Log on to E&E volunteer DonorView
  2. Click on the “Events” button
  3. Click on the “print ticket” button

Please Remember the following

  • Please sign in to your DonorView account before you sign up for an event. (The advantage of signing in to your account first is that the attendant fields will be auto-filled for you, making your signup process a lot more efficient. Also, it will avoid the creation of multiple accounts.)
  • Make sure to check your email for sign-up confirmation and event ticket.
  • In the event that an update is required we will post it on the group chat and send Donorview update email.
  • The event sign-up page also has the latest info. Please check there first if you have any questions.
  • Please Note: Deleting a sign-up requires admin intervention so please only sign up when you are certain of your availability.
  • We announce new events  on the WhatsApp group first as events become available. If you have recently joined E&E, it’s best to sign into your Donorview account to see ongoing events. Click on the “event” icon. In the upper- right hand corner you will see a pull-down menu for ongoing events. Here is a short info document on Donorview:
    https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XnpAMjnXXaVjcqG27_WW2tnnFMX8dJoSvXK139z0j_0/edit

*  Please Enter Your Volunteer Hours as soon as you are done with your activity

Presidential Volunteer Service Award (PVSA):

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