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Hope for Hope Haven
December 17, 2016 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Sadly, this Christmas – there will be homeless on the streets. Even sadder, there will be children, too. There is little we can do about it THIS Christmas, BUT… we CAN do something we can do NOW, so there will be some shelter NEXT year.
On Saturday, December 17th The Dyess We Care Team will help Hope Haven revitalize 11 mini-apartments that will provide temporary shelter (while Hope Haven arranges resources, treatment and job placement) for homeless families.
Not “Christmasy” enough for you?? How about this?
Currently, there is a small room designated as the children’s “Play Room”. A group of students recently painted it; one of the Hope Haven staff said, “After I saw it, I went home and cried.” She was NOT shedding tears of joy! It is dreary and depressing. It’s bad enough to be homeless child; at least ONE room should be fun and happy.
Our #1 priority is to get the apartments ready for NEXT year; HOWEVER, IF we get enough volunteers… Hope Haven has given The Dyess We Care Team COMPLETE CREATIVE FREEDOM to do what we want with the children’s playroom!!
Even better… THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE HAVE PLANNED!! There are THREE volunteer positions for “Artist”. The Children’s room is going to be a Train & Zoo animal theme, so we need artist to paint landscape, trees, clouds an animals. IF that’s you, SNAG the “Artist” volunteer slots, AND e-mail me at: thedyesswecareteam@yahoo.com.
UNLESS we get at LEAST 30 volunteers… the Children’s Playroom will NOT happen.
PLEASE consider volunteering for our LAST project of 2016.
OH… and because this project is SO grand… EVERY volunteer will receive a NEW Dyess We Care Team 2017 volunteer t-shirt, just in time for Christmas!
The Team Leader for this event is A1C Reese Winters, assisted by A1C Joseph Burk, with Lead Carpenter TSgt Bryan Carrillo.
“Maybe Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” – The Grinch. I know each of you GIVE so much every day just being military; please consider… giving just a little bit more on December 17th.