Books Through Bars

Here are some pictures from our Books Through Bars Activity on Saturday, March 20.
We were able to help by reading letters from prisoners and then personally picking books that matched their requests.


First we packaged books that other volunteers had already picked out:

Then we got to select books ourselves for a letter in their huge library of donated books:



All of the books that were selected and wrapped by the end of the morning!

Minutes, March 15

This Saturday we're going to be working with Books Through Bars.

We only have around three more weekends for projects, and then we have the fun fair, our polio project, and a day where we will make baked goods to take to the Ronald McDonald house.

SHARE, Feb 27

Here are some pictures from the project we did at SHARE in Philadelphia this weekend. We helped pack boxes of food that will be distributed to families later on. Sorry for the dark pictures - we were in a warehouse with tricky lighting.

Signing in

Phil working the jack lift.

Many boxes to fill.

The finished products.

Minutes, Feb 22

This Saturday we are going to be working with Philabundance.
We will meet in Parrish Circle at 8:00 am

There will be no project next weekend, but we will still meet next Monday to discuss project ideas for our Polio Awareness Day/Week

*CORRECTION*:
This Saturday we are instead going to SHARE (Self-Help and Resource Exchange), where we will help out with food distribution.
We will meet at 8:30 at Parrish Circle and return at around 11:30

Minutes, Feb 8

We are starting tabling for the blood drive this week.

This Sunday we are working with Saturdays of Service with the Jewish Relief Agency, probably from 10:30 to 1:00.

"volunteers work together to package kosher, non-perishable food in boxes. After packing, volunteers load their cars and deliver the food packages to each of the recipient families according to pre-determined delivery routes, complete with driving directions and maps."

Come up with ideas for Polio Awareness!!

Minutes, Feb. 1

This Saturday we are either:
-working with Saturdays of Service for Books through Bars
-environmental clean up work

We will be tabling in Tarble for the blood drive in a couple weeks, (a week before the blood drive)

We also need to come up with ideas for a Polio fund raising event

Minutes, Jan 23

Here is a summer of the things that we talked about during our lunch meeting:

• We decided that our weekly meetings would be held on Monday nights at 8pm this semester
• We talked about possibly being "guest chefs" for the Ronald McDonald House one weekend
• We discussed the Fun Fair a bit, but will postpone planning until spring is closer
• We talked about becoming involved again in promoting the Blood Drive on campus (Theresa and Renu said they could attend the meeting next Wednesday)