The count down to the holiday season is upon us. Right in the midst of it is our 12 Days of Xmas preparation. During the 12 Days of Xmas, we dress up as Ms Claus & her elves to hand out 1500 Xmas Stockings. Fashion designer, Nancy Perreault designs the stockings. Community members and high school textile classes sew them. Elementary school students decorate them. Community members and corporations collect self care items to fill the stockings. We head out to different organizations we provide programming for during the year and hand out the stockings to the participants. This year we would like to hand out stockings in New West and Surrey too. In 2012, we will be offering additional programming in the Fraser Valley area and would like to get to know some of the participants and organizations we will be working with.
We are collecting new products such as:
socks
Mittens
gloves
dental care: tooth brushes, dental floss, tooth paste
skin care products: cleanser, moisturizer, exfolient, face mask, toner
Body care products: body wash, soap, moisturizer, body scrubs, face cloths
Hair Care products: shampoo, conditioner, styling products
Journals
Pens
Jewelry
nail files
candy canes
mandarin oranges
chocolate
* All product donations must be new to meet the requirements of Health & Safety Canada.
** We are also collecting money to purchase some of the items we might not get enough of. We also welcome donations to continue offering the programming we are able to offer to the participants we love to serve. The money will also provide additional opportunities for the women to develop life skills and other programming opportunities.
Donations can be dropped off at various locations through out the city. Donations can be dropped off at:
Carrie Wheeler Talent Management 1737 East 6th Avenue on the porch
Tritech Fabric
Suite 106 611 Alexander
Monday through Friday until 5pm
*** Please call Craig 604-255-4242 ext 210 to make arrangements for drop offs.
We are thrilled with Tritech’s support. They also donated some of the fabric to create the Xmas stockings.
Huge thanks to Judith Latoski letting Barbara at Tritech Fabric know what we need. Barbara has been incredibly supportive too.
**** Donations must be dropped off before December 1st, 2011.
After that they will be moved to another location so we can coordinate stuffing the stockings. Lush Cosmetics has offered to let us use their space for stuffing stockings.
Xmas Stocking Volunteer Opportunities:
Students & classes – if you know of a group of students to decorate stockings we have about 1000 stockings to decorate still.
Drivers – Who are able to pick up product donations and drop them off at Tritech Fabrics
Stocking Team Leader – conducting a product & fund raising drive for Beauty Night within your office or friends. Please share the information in this email with people you think might be interested in getting involved.
Thank you to Nancy Perreault, Judith Latowski, Josanne Franklin, Gary Smith, Nicole Watson, Sharon Hong, Gabrielle Tambre, Margo Dalinghaus, Anne Whitmore, Kana, Heidi Hass Gable, York House School, White Rock Elementary School, Blair Lockhart, Julianne Petersen and many more who have helped us with our 2011 12 Days of Xmas Campaign.
** If you would like to support our stocking drive with a monitary donation, donations can be made online at http://www.canadahelps.org/
