2023 CHRISTMAS PROJECT
An amazing group of Help Give Hope (HGH) volunteers and staff just completed over 300 home visits during October. It's a thorough screening process that we take very seriously. As a result, we have selected roughly 185 families we feel are most qualified and in need. Next, our staff will create detailed shop sheets for each family to be used by our shopping volunteers in mid-November at Wal-Mart in Ozark (see dates below). We have already purchased 300 new bikes as well as items in bulk such as vacuum cleaners, microwaves, pots & pans and pillows that will be ready and available for our gift wrappers in December. Several local organizations are sending teams of volunteers to help us prepare the warehouse, make boxes, set up tables, place family names on the floor (a killer job for us old folks with bad backs!) and much more! As you can imagine, there are many other moving parts too numerous to detail in this newsletter.
But we cannot do any of these things without our army of volunteers. We need shoppers, auditors and gift wrappers - see dates and times below.
WANT TO VOLUNTEER?
Please call Murray at 417-209-7027 or email us at helpgivehope@sbcglobal.net.
SHOPPING
We need MANY shoppers each day!
Monday and Wednesday
November 13, 15
7:00 am
Walmart in Ozark in the Garden Center
Just show up - no reservation needed!
AUDITING - we need many!!!!!!!
Many volunteers are needed to help us audit every family’s shop sheet.
Friday, November 17
9:00 am-Noon
HGH Warehouse; 2809 N Cedarbrook
WRAPPING
Join us as we wrap all the gifts for our adopted families.
If you are bringing a group, please call Murray, 417-209-7027 to reserve a space.
Friday and Saturday
December 8 & 9
9:00 am—approximately 2:00 pm both days
