June 7, 2016       Vol 8, Issue 24
NEED HELP SATURDAY
w/ visits & bag assembly


ALSO NEED SUMMER VOLUNTEER GROUPS!
Dear We Are Family/NWSH/Positive Force DC friends,
At top, two young WAF volunteers at bag assembly; just above, wonderful volunteers from Georgetown Day School ferociously attacking the bag assembly beast! :-)

Dear We Are Family friends,

First, thanks to the amazing volunteers who delivered 350+ bags and boxes on May 28th to Columbia Heights seniors!

NEXT, we need your help assembling more bags and visiting seniors THIS SATURDAY, 
meeting 10am at Metropolitan Community Church, 474 Ridge Street NW (near 5th & M Streets and the Convention Center metro)... see more details and sign up below!

Finally, we also NEED HELP WITH VOLUNTEER GROUPS AND CARS OVER THE SUMMER WHEN WE ARE WITH OUT MOST OF OUR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS--PLEASE COME OUT IF YOU POSSIBLY CAN, AND BRING YOUR FRIENDS OR CO-WORKERS! See more info at bottom...

THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL... we couldn't do it w/out you.

all our love, 
Mark, Tulin and family
202-487-8698

P.S. Again , please consider giving a donation now... Money is always tight, so any amount helps. On line payment link here:
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VISITS & BAG ASSEMBLY
SATURDAY, June 11th, 10am-1pm
 
 
Meet at Metropolitan Community Church, 474 Ridge St NW, near 5th & M, Convention Center metro
 
 
(If you can join, please sign up  here

NORTH CAPITOL/SHAW GROCERY 
DELIVERY
Saturday, June 18th, 9:30am-1pm
Meet at the Metro Community Church, 474 Ridge Street NW
 
2.5 blocks from the Convention Center metro, near 5th & M Sts NW
 
(If you can join, please sign up 
here !)

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS GROCERY DELIVERY
Saturday, June 25th, 10am-1pm
Meet at the Kelsey Apartments, 3322 14th Street NW, near the Columbia Heights metro, on 14th between Park and Monroe.
(If you can join, please sign up 
here )  
 

If Saturdays aren't a good day for you to volunteer, with advance notice, we can set up visits or grocery assembly for you or your group another day. Just let us know, OK? Thanks!
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Contact Us
We Are Family Senior Outreach Network
1525 Newton St., NW
Washington, DC 20010
Phone:(202) 487-8698
Email:marka@wearefamilydc.org
Web:www.wearefamilydc.org 
Join Our Mailing List!
    NEED VOLUNTEER GROUPS & CARS 
THIS SUMMER !
    (Fun-loving and hard-working volunteer group from Washington's Biggest Givers, w/ special thanks to Michelle and Anthony!)
 
URGENT CALL TO OUR AMAZING VOLUNTEERS: 
We are trying to plan ahead as to not run short on volunteers for our SATURDAY deliveries this summer, especially now that we are also delivering fresh produce on Wednesdays!

This is the challenge: our deliveries now reach more than 650 seniors each month. This impressive figure is made possible by extraordinary volunteer support from folks like you--THANK YOU! 

However, in the summer we are missing the vast majority of our student volunteers, so need a special effort from you all and any groups you are part of to make sure we can get the much-needed groceries to our seniors on time.

All of you have volunteered in the past... you are the heart of what we do. As such, we are hoping that you all might mobilize your networks to provide a group to come and help on any of the upcoming delivery dates this summer.

1. We need help on June 18th (MCC), June 25th (Kelsey), July 23rd (MCC), July 30th (Kelsey), August 20th (MCC), August 27th (Kelsey), September 17th (MCC) and September 24th (Kelsey).

2. If none of these dates work--I know Saturdays are NOT good for the DCJCC for example--but you could get a group another time, just let me know, OK? You might be able to help assemble the bags so we don't have to do that on the delivery date... a huge, HUGE help!

Just let me know if you and yours can help with any of these dates or any OTHER date that can work for you and your group, OK? 

Again, thanks so much for all you've done in the past, and whatever you can do here... it really makes a difference for our seniors!

w/ love, Mark A         wearefamilydc@gmail.com
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We Are Family thought for the week: 
 
"
As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world's problems or, for that matter, to any problems. Inequality is the root of social ills. The dignity of each human person and the pursuit of the common good are concerns which ought to shape all economic policies."

 
Pope Francis, 2014