Mother’s Day Baskets for McAuley Village
April 1, 2010
McAuley Village is two-year transitional housing program for homeless single parents and children. The Village has 23 apartments and an on-site child care center. They provide the basic human needs of shelter, child care, supportive services, advocacy and guidance to homeless families seeking help. Village residents have diverse backgrounds and different levels of preparation. Some residents did not graduate from high school. Others are victims of domestic violence and some are immigrant families. Whatever their backgrounds, all are homeless and living in desperate poverty.
This Mother’s Day, May 8th, Bell Street Chapel will be delivering Mother’s Day Baskets to the 23 mothers of McAuley village. Children in the village receive lots of attention, but mothers are often overwhelmed, overworked and still living in difficult conditions. We hope that these baskets will send a message of love and hope to the single mothers of the Village.
If you would like to help, we will be providing baskets, ribbons and tissue for adornment by the children, and art supplies for cards, but we need the small gifts to fill the baskets. Some ideas are: toiletries (trial sizes?), small flowering plants or flowers, hair accessories, mini sewing kits, or anything else you can think of! (Sister Holly, the administrator, asks that we NOT donate candles). Cash donations will go toward gift cards to CVS. We will need 23 (or 11 or 12) of each item, so they can be distributed evenly. Please see Carol Wiseman about your donation or fill in your idea/donation on the form in Eddy Hall. Thank you!