SimplyHelp

LA County Approved SimplyHelp to receive its Surplus Equipment

The Warehouse will be open for donation drop-off this Sunday, June 14^th 2pm-4pm.

Address:

14940 E. Don Julian Rd.

City of Industry,  CA 91748

SimplyHelp received exciting news this week!

The County of Los Angeles has approved SimplyHelp to receive surplus equipment from LA County!

This means that SimplyHelp is eligible to receive all furniture, computers, stationary and other office related things that LA County office’s don’t need anymore.

SimplyHelp can also request anything else it needs – often different departments in the County have access to different kinds of equipment/appliances/ clothes/food etc.

This is very exciting because it assures that SimplyHelp will be able to continue to provide people in need with the donations they need.

Other exciting news: Carol has established a SimplyHelp branch in Thailand!

Carol has been very successful in charity work in the past and we are sure she’ll do the same for SimplyHelp Thailand.

Thank you Carol!

If anyone has friends or family in Thailand that would like to join the new SimplyHelp branch there, please get in contact with me.

Please continue to check our website (www.simplyhelp.org) it changes regularly, and let us know your comments.

Correction: In last weeks news letter I mentioned SimplyHelp’s donation to FUNAG.

FUNAG is located in Honduras, not in El Salvador.

Have a wonderful week,

Lotte

lotte@simplyhelp.org

Work pro-bono for SimplyHelp!

The Warehouse will be open this Sunday from 2pm-4pm for donation drop-off.

Address:

14940 E. Don Julian Rd.

City of Industry, CA 91748

 

SimplyHelp is rapidly expanding and has started to form it’s first committee’s.  The main goal of each committee is to increase SimplyHelp’s visibility in Asian communities as well as the main stream and to raise funds for its various projects.

If you have specialized skills and would like to volunteer your time and skills to help SimiplyHelp grow and expand its reach, please get in contact with me.

Or, if you have great contacts in the business world, or with Lions Club or Rotary Club members and you would like to help raise funds for SimplyHelp, please let me know.

SimplyHelp New York collected enough donations to fill a container and will be sending a container to El Salvadorin June. Great Work SH New York!

Last but not least SimplyHelp wants to thank all its new committee members:

Wing Leung and Fannie Ma are on the Cambodia Committee.

Eric Lee is on the Business Relations Committee

Claudia Kielich will help SH entering the ‘mainstream’

Ling Yu is on the El Salvador Senior Center Committee.

Sally Bao, Shaun Hicks, Tina Bow and Lotte Goede are on the Strategic Planning Committee.

Cathy Conley is on the Taiwan Business Committee.

Thank you everybody for your support, time, effort and enthusiasm!

Because of your help SimplyHelp will be able to grow and reach out to even more people in need. Thank you.

           

Have a wonderful week,

Lotte

lotte@simplyhelp.org

Shoes for Nicaraguan Children

The Warehouse will be closed this Sunday due to Memorial day weekend.

Tina and Cathy have returned from their trip to Honduras and Nicaragua.

They have distributed donations to Hondurans living in poverty, together with the First Lady of Honduras.

They also met with the president of a wonderful Honduran NGO called ‘FUNAG’. FUNAG has been successfully helping Honduran people in need for years. SimplyHelp promised to send them a container with donations, which has been sent out this weekend.  In other words: The trip was very successful.

After Honduras Tina and Cathy travelled to Nicaragua for a project assessment and were struck by the poverty they encountered.

 

Tina and Cathy were saddened by the high number of children walking barefoot.

SimplyHelp intends to provide these children with a pair of good shoes to walk on.

If you know of any tennis shoe manufactorer whom might be interested in working with SimplyHelp on this project, please get in contact with me or Tina.

We would like to thank four special people this week, for their help.

Karen Hao volunteers every Monday at the office and is helping us researching the countries we are active in, as well as organizing the information about SimplyHelp’s activities in countries over the years.

Thank you Karen!

Wing Leung and Steve Lee volunteer many, many Sunday afternoons. They are in charge of the warehouse. They open and close the warehouse for SimplyHelp and help packing the donations.

Thank you Steve and Wing!

Jane Huang volunteers every other Thursday at the office and help us with our finances.

Thank you Jane!

Would you like to get more involved with SimplyHelp, and volunteer your skills and expertise to help SimplyHelp grow?

If so, you are invited to the next SimplyHelp meeting on Sunday May 24^th at 10:30am at the SimplyHelp office.

We will start with forming committee’s that will each take on certain tasks and jobs that need to be done to help SimplyHelp expand it’s reach.

If you’re interested, please shoot me an email describing the special skills you can contribute.

           

Have a wonderful week,

Lotte

lotte@simplyhelp.org

Warehouse will be closed this Sunday

The Warehouse will be closed this Sunday, because it’s Mothers day.

Would you like to get more involved with SimplyHelp, and volunteer your skills and expertise to help SimplyHelp grow?

If so, you are invited to the SimplyHelp meeting on Wednesday May 13^th at 6:30pm, at the SimplyHelp office.

We will start with forming committee’s that will each take on certain tasks and jobs that need to be done to help SimplyHelp expand it’s reach.

If you’re interested, please shoot me an email describing the special skills you can contribute.

SimplyHelp is proud to announce its accomplishments in 2008.

Please click on this link, to see what we have accomplished together.

http://www.simplyhelp.org/annual/sh_annual_2008_01.htm

           

Have a wonderful week,

Lotte

lotte@simplyhelp.org

Help distribute donations in Honduras!

Please come help and pack our donations at the warehouse this Sunday.  The Warehouse will be open from 2pm-4pm.

The address:

14940 E. Don Julian Rd

City of Industry, CA 91748

Cathy Conley will travel to Honduras from May 3^rd-8^th, to distribute donations together with the First Lady of Honduras’ office and other Honduran NGO’s.

If you would like to join Cathy on this special trip, please let me know this week.

Go Green! Donors now have the option to donate by credit card. Please take advantage of this option and make your next donations a paperless one.

Last but not least, I would like to remind people SimplyHelp has moved to a new office and has a new phone and fax number.

Our new contact info (also available on the website www.simplyhelp.org):

121 S Hope St. #406

Los Angeles, CA 90012

T: 213 626 7676

F: 213 626 7575

www.simplyhelp.org

info@simplyhelp.org

Have a wonderful week,

Lotte

SimplyHelp opened its Vocational Training Center for Women in El Salvador

Dear Volunteers,

           

The warehouse will be open this Sunday, April 26th, from 2pm-4pm.

The address:

14940 E. Don Julian Rd.

City of Industry,CA 91748

Tina and Ms. Ling, a SimplyHelp volunteer, returned Sunday from a very successful trip to El Salvador

SimplyHelp attended the opening celebration of the Vocational Training Center for Women in La Libertad, distributed donations to people living in poverty and signed papers that mark the start of the construction of the 3^rd SimplyHelp Senior Center.

The opening of the Vocational Training Center for Women was very successful. The center has a capacity of 180 students, whom will be able to follow classes in cosmetology, gastronomy, baking, sewing, bar tending, maid services. The center has a daycare for the children of attending mothers. 

The center is located in a rural area with a rapidly increasing tourist industry. Students graduating from the Vocational Training Center will be able to start working right away in local hotels, bakeries, tailoring shops and beauty salons.

After the opening ceremony Tina and Ms. Ling distributed 300 gift bags filled with clothes, food and toys to local people living in poverty.

Another 300 gift bags were distributed the next day to people living in poverty in Cojutapeque.  On the same day SimplyHelp signed papers that mark the beginning of the construction of the 3^rd SimplyHelp Senior Center in Cojutapeque.

Pictures of the trip will be posted on the front page of the SimplyHelp website tomorrow.  Please visit www.simplyhelp.org

Have a wonderful day,

Lotte

 

New SimplyHelp Office

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend and your enjoying the mild spring weather.

The warehouse will be open this Sunday, April 18, from 2pm-4pm.

The address:

14940 E. Don Julian Rd.

City of Industry, CA 91748

Spring brings change and a new beginning, and with that SimplyHelp has moved to a beautiful new office.

The address:

121 S Hope Street #406

Los Angeles, CA 90012

Our new phone and fax:

P: 213 626 7676

F: 213 626 7575

Tina has opened the new Vocational Training Center for women in La Libertad, El Salvador , last Tuesday. It is a beautiful center that promises to change the lives of the hundreds of women that will be studying there.

Pictures will follow next week.

Have a wonderful day,

Lotte

*Tina is going to El Salvador*

The warehouse will be closed this Easter Sunday.

Tina will go to El Salvador this Sunday, together with a SimplyHelp volunteer, and they have a busy schedule in ahead of them.

April 14^th the Vocational Training Center for Women will open in the city La Libertad. Tina will be there for the opening together with Dona Elly and her Comite de Proyeccion Social.

Second on the agenda is distribution of the donations we recently packed and shipped to El Salvador

. She will distribute the donations together with Dona Elly in a poor rural area in El Salvador.

Third on the agenda is our third Senior Center for homeless elderly. The first two centers in the city Cojutapeque are so successful that the Major of this city has donated land to build a third one.

A third one is much needed, as the existing two centers are currently over populated. Due to lack of space, some elderly are coming to the center to eat and get medical care, after which they have to leave again.

So, we are very excited to get this project started. The estimated total cost will be $25 000. We have currently raised the first $12 500.

If you would like to contribute to building this center and providing elderly with a safe and loving home – please make a donation and let us know it’s for the 3^rd Senior Center in El Salvador.

Have a wonderful Easter weekend,

Lotte

Taiwan Center Recycling Event Great Success!

The warehouse will be openfor donation drop-off this Sunday, from 2pm-4pm.

As a reminder, the address:

14940 E. Don Julian Rd.

City of Industry, CA91748

If you have some time this Sunday, please stop by at the warehouse to help sort out the truck load full of donations Wing and Steve collected during last weekends recycling event.

The recycling event, organized by the Taiwan Center in Rosemead , was fantastic.

The Taiwan Center organizes a donation drop-off weekend twice a year and selects one charity organization to give all the donations to.

This year SimplyHelp was selected.

Wing and Steve were present to receive the donations, which were dropped off throughout the day.  In Wing’s words:

“For the whole day long, people just kept coming, dropping their unwanted/outdated
household appliances, such as computers, monitors, old TV, microwaves etc, and at the
same time, also dropping clothing and other household items for SimplyHelp. For the
two-day event, I estimated there were about 300 people stopped by for the donations.

Since the feedback was quite positive, the person in charge at Taiwan Centerthought that in the future, they can co-operate with SimplyHelp and continue with this kind of event. The objective is not only to help protecting the environment, but also can give a hand to the people who need help in poor countries.”

Last but not least, we need sewing material for our school in El Salvador. If you happen to have any fabric or other sewing materials, or you know of a factory that supplies these materials – please let us know.

Thank you and have a wonderful Thursday,

Lotte

HELP SimplyHelp to load 2 Containers for Honduras and Nicaragua this Sunday

The warehouse will be open this Sunday, from 11am-4pm.

Two containers will need to be loaded this Sunday, so we need all the help we can get.

Join us in the fun of packing all the supplies that will soon help people living in poverty and share in the satisfaction of contributing to the happiness of thousands of recipients.

One container will go to Honduras and one will go to Nicaragua.

There will also be a press conference on this event, starting at 11am in the warehouse, hosting the Consul General of Honduras, Vivian Panting.

Warehouse address:

14940 E Don Julian Rd.

City of Industry, CA 91748

If you have stationary, school supplies, computer, sewing, beauty or craft supplies, please bring it to the warehouse.

If you know a wholesale company that sells any of the above, please contact us: 213 221 7676.

Have a wonderful Wednesday,

Lotte