12 Days of Xmas on Shaw TV’s Express
December 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
2nd Day of Xmas
December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ode to Laura by Caroline
Dressed up as Santa was I
When Rev dropped off 3 garbage bags
stuffed with knitted scarves.
“Ladies,” I announced, “Many
moons ago, my 11 year old cousin
wanted to volunteer all the time.
She wanted to help how ever she could
so she taught 50 kids how to knit.
The first year the kids made
40 scarves which we handed out.
For years and years,
this girl continued to get
kids to knit scarves to
keep people warm. Now
that she is in her 2nd year
of university, the knitting
project continues to grow. These
scarves (6 garbage bags full)
were made with love by kids
10, 11, and 12.
To keep you warm
and cover you in love.”
Touched each women
picked out a scarf
of her choice.
At the end of the night,
7 volunteers took delight
in handing out knitted love
to men and women
shivering in the streets.
Clean socks
warm scarves
friendly smiles
songs of love.
Thank you to all the
girls and boys
who knitted scarves
that created such love and joy.
Abundant in warmth
Hope and love keep us
Alive through out the night.
Video of Laura Mah, founder of Knit Fit
1st Day of Xmas
December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
On the first day of Xmas, our friends at AG Hair were as busy as elves. Decorating stockings with beads and bows, they filled more than 400 stockings to hand out to dear people we know. Through the streets of the downtown eastside our volunteers roam handing out xmas stockings to women we know.
Dressed up as the Grinch and a Holiday elf, through shelters, Sorella House, and Rice Block we headed with a car stuffed with xmas wealth. Staff members at the houses greeted us with joy. Together we brought in boxes of stockings filled with tooth brushes, tooth paste, AG-Hair products and toys.
Bringing Stockings to shelter to hand out
The first door we knocked, with hesitation it was unlocked. “We wish you a merry christmas, we wish you a merry christmas, we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year!” we sang. Serenaded she was touched as she gentle took the stocking and said,”Thank you very much.”
Door after door we knocked, singing our Christmas carols, we rocked. Watching eyes light up with delight made us realize just how right the idea of giving is better than receiving – the joy we got was oh so pleasing.
165 stockings we handed out during our journey along this route. Excited to hand out more as the 2nd day of Xmas will have more in store. Thank you to all who have helped make our 12 Days of Xmas Campaign come true – we are so grateful to all of you!
Dear Santa
December 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Thank you so much for all of the donations of products to fill 1500 Xmas stockings. Starting on Monday we will be handing them out. For those who collected donations to fill the stockings but have not yet dropped them off, please hang onto them for our upcoming Valentine’s Day campaign. At this time we do not have storage space to keep them. As we count down the days until the end of the year, storage space is on our 2011 wish list.
Beauty Night’s Wish List:
1) Storage space in Vancouver for donations of product
2) $100 each week to pay for honorariums ($20 per shift) to pay our participants who are developing job ready skills as they train to become faciliators.
3) $1000 to cover cost of running one week of programming including supplies, staffing, insurance, honorariums, photocopying, etc
4) $$$ for us expand programming to other areas & train additional facilitators to coordinating volunteers & supplies to run programs.
5) Hairdresser volunteers who are able to volunteer on a weekly basis
6) Opportunities for our Beauty Night Ambassadors and ED to speak about Beauty Night and hold discussions about the cycle of poverty and violence against youth and women.
7) Follow us on twitter @beautynight and share our news with your network.
Join the conversations on our facebook fan page www.facebook.com/beautynightsociety
9) Hold an event to raise money for our cause. Events can include bake sales, twoonie drives, fashion shows, garage sales, net working events, silent auctions and many many more.
10) Become a monthly donor by hitting the donate now button on the left hand side of the page.
Volunteer, donate, spread the word.
Thank you for your ongoing support!
