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SimplyHelp Fundraiser for Haiti this Sunday-Jan 31st!

Please join SimplyHelp in its effort to relief the suffering in Haiti.

Come and help at the SimplyHelp Fundraiser for Haiti this Sunday, January 31^st!

 

SimplyHelp is raising funds for the survivors of the Haiti earthquake and is organizing a big fundraiser this Sunday.

 

Please bring ALL your friends, family members, neighbors, acquaintances, co-workers, classmates and more!

 

There will be live music and dance, as well as merchandize for sale.

The fundraiser is from 2pm-4pm at the:

 

Culture Center of Taipei Economic & Cultural Office

9443 Telstar Ave., El Monte, CA 91731

T:626 443 9999

 

We need LOTS of volunteers to help us set up the event and to assist during the event.

We will be setting up at 10am.

If you can help the whole day: GREAT

If you would like to help but only have a few hours, please join us either:

From 10am-1:30pm or from

  1:30pm-5pm

 

The warehouse will be closed.

See you Sunday,

Lotte

lotte@simplyhelp.org

www.simplyhelp.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SimplyHelp coordinates relief with Ambassador Haiti

 

• SimplyHelp sent a container with donations (mainly computers) to Honduras last Sunday, to help set up a computer school for street kids.

 

• We are currently working together with the Ambassador of Haiti, to find the best time to send a container with aid supplies to Haiti.

 

All donations, except for food, are welcome.

 

Our main focus at this point is Computers.

Other things on the SimplyHelp wish list: Microwave, television, big cooking pots and for Haiti: clothes, blankets, medical supplies, stationary.

 

• SimplyHelp is changing the lives of hundreds of poor people, around the world. One of these people is Vladimir Valle Garci’s, an alumni of the SimplyHelp supported Vocational Training School in La Libertad, El Salvador.

 

Vladimir used to have a small general store, but local criminals forced him to pay $3000/month – so his business failed.

He heard about the job training school and decided to learn baking. Upon graduating he and his wife opened a small bakery in La Libertad.

One of the breads he learned to make at the school – a delicious bread filled with chicken and vegetables – has become so popular in La Libertad that his bakery quickly grew to the biggest bakery in town!

Vladimir is incredibly grateful and shares his fortune with others – whenever poor people come to ask for food, he always gives.

He also opened up his bakery to current students at the Vocational Training Center. Students can come and get some ‘real world’ practice in his bakery.

Vladimir: “I’ve been blessed by being able to go to your school. Now I’m ‘paying it forward. Thank you.”

Vladimir’s picture is attached.

For more pictures of El Salvador – please visit our website. www.simplyhelp.org

 

• The warehouse will be closed this Sunday.

 

Have a happy Thursday,

Lotte

lotte@simplyhelp.org

www.simplyhelp.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3rd Senior Center for Homeless Elderly Opened!

 

I am writing you this news letter from beautiful El Salvador.

People’s lives here are hard. The disparity between our good lives and their harsh lives is absurd.

Let’s always be grateful for things we take for granted: Shelter, warm showers, food, access to education, the ability to drop $3 on Starbuck’s coffee, several times a week, without even thinking about it….

 

SimplyHelp has opened the 3^rd Senior Center, housing 36 (formerly) homeless elderly in Cojutepeque, and celebrated the graduation of the first group of students that attended the Vocational Training Center in San Salvador, which was opened last June.

 

• The Senior Center is in need of big pots and pans, folding chairs, a microwave, television and new blankets. If you can, please help the elderly and donate one of these items (new).

 

Besides all these exiting celebrations, I am evaluating all SimplyHelp’s projects from the past 9 years in El Salvador.

The stories I hear from alumni’s of SimplyHelp’s schools are humbling and heartwarming.

I will share these with you over the coming weeks. Today I’d like to tell a little bit more about the Senior Center’s.

 

SimplyHelp donated the money to build all three Senior Centers. Pastor Soto’s church members are the ones whom largely build the Senior Centers – for free.

Men, women and children spend months, donating their time, labor and sweat to erect the building and provide 50 homeless elderly, 70, 80 and 90 years old, with a home.

The church members don’t stop there.

 

They wash and clean the elderly. They cook three meals a day for them. They take them to the doctor. They do fun activities with them. And when they pass away, they give them a beautiful church service and burry them. All for Free.

And mind you, many of these church members are extremely poor themselves – jobless, some of them homeless – helping each other through life.

 

• The warehouse will be open for donation drop-off this Sunday, from 1pm-4pm.

Warehouse address:

14940 E. Don Julian Road

City of Industry, CA 91748

 

Be happy,

Lotte

lotte@simplyhelp.org

www.simplyhelp.org