November 2022 Newsletter


 

EnE November 2022 Newsletter

Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude. To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”
We at EnE wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving!

 

 


Important Reminders:

Now for a Quick Recap of Our November 2022 Activities

November – EnE volunteers worked on providing fun activities, warm food & warm
clothing for the unhoused population in the upcoming chilly winter times.

Volunteer of the Month: Avni Saxena
Avni Saxena has been volunteering with E&E for one year now. She is very active and participates in various activities during weekends. Her enthusiasm to volunteer is seemingly endless. Your commitment makes a difference Avni. Keep up the great work. Avni is the 2022 E&E holiday card, design winner. She captured creatively what is E&E about.

On this holiday season, there will be blessings all around. Just keep the door of your heart open so they can fill it up with peace, positivity, and love! Enjoy this golden time of the year to the fullest with loved ones.
Happy Holidays!

True methods of introducing the gardening concept to children.  EnE Volunteers at the Gardening

EnE volunteers worked hard to acquire hundreds of yards of fleece, cut, sew, and loop the edges to provide warmth and comfort for the needy without shelters in the long and cold nights of winter. People on the receiving end felt very grateful for the timely aid.

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 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.

STEM 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 and so much more for Thanksgiving distribution.

EnE volunteers collected hundreds of new or gently used jackets to give a gift of warmth to the unhoused friends.

Knitting caps for cancer patients continues by our young volunteers.

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

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

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