As I mentioned above, there will be more opportunities across NH in comings days. For these events, details are pending and will be included in this diary as an update or will be posted in a follow up dairy.
Stay Warm NH is organizing three-person teams from major employers, small businesses, non-profit organizations, and community agencies to undertake basic winterizing measures in the homes of low income elderly, disabled and households with young children. Training and materials will be provided to teams in time for volunteer days….
Family Shelter at The Tobey School
Shelter manager Mike Riley wants the Tobey School to do more than serve a temporary need. He hopes families will use their time at the shelter to connect with organizations that can help them stabilize their lives. In addition to cots, bathrooms and the occasional snack, the shelter’s staff is equipped to dole out advice.
“You can’t get into the details when you’re dealing with a family on the phone,” he said. “You don’t know the story. . . . This puts you eyeball to eyeball. It’s a better chance to get the details, develop trust.”
Riley has spent nearly two decades as a homeless-outreach worker and will run the Tobey shelter for up to 100 nights this winter. He will conduct short interviews with new guests, enforce the house rules and make sure everyone is treated with respect.
Anyone who would like to donate to the shelter or serve as a volunteer should e-mail TEFshelter@gmail.com. Anyone in need of the shelter’s services should call the New Hampshire Homeless Hotline at 800-852-3388.
Click Here For FAQ Sheet
Is there a way to see the shifts that are available online? Yes, go to the following URL for this information: http://calendar.yahoo.com/tefs…Who do I contact with general questions about the shelter? Please send an email noting your name and phone number to the CCEH at tefshelter@gmail.com. Someone will contact you with answers to your question.
The Friendly Kitchen has one purpose — to feed the hungry. We are the only soup kitchen in the Concord, New Hampshire area. Anyone who comes to our door is welcome – without question or qualification. Since the Friendly Kitchen first began in 1980, it has served over 600,000 meals and has seen a steady increase in guests from year to year. Located in Hope House, at 14 Montgomery Street in Concord, the Friendly Kitchen serves an evening meal every day and breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays.
The Friendly Kitchen is run almost entirely by volunteers and it relies on donations from individuals and businesses to pay its expenses. Most of the food is donated by individuals, food drives, area businesses, the NH Food Bank, the Capital Regional Food Program, the Community Action Program, and from the volunteer serving groups.
Most of these events will fall into one of seven general categories, which include:
· Environment – such as beach and/or park clean-ups;
· Hunger/Homelessness – such as serving food at a soup kitchen;
· Health – such as organizing a blood drive or volunteering at a hospital;
· Education – such as tutoring or volunteering in a classroom, or helping to fix up a school;
· Civic engagement – such as teaching children about democracy and civic participation;
· Military/Veterans – such as volunteering at a local veterans’ center;
· Faith – such as working with a local faith organization to run their children’s book collection program.
If you haven’t seen something that spurs your interest, but you desire to help, please consider taking on the challenge of organizing your own event.
One of the most inspiring things I have ever heard PE Obama say, is a spin off of a great MLK quote. I found it here in a speech he gave for John Lewis’s 65th Birthday Gala.
You know, two weeks after Bloody Sunday, when the march finally reached Montgomery, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to the crowd of thousands and said “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” He’s right, but you know what? It doesn’t bend on its own. It bends because we help it bend that way. Because people like John Lewis and Hosea Williams and Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks and thousands of ordinary Americans with extraordinary courage have helped bend it that way. And as their examples call out to us from across the generations, we continue to progress as a people because they inspire us to take our own two hands and bend that arc. Thank you John. May God Bless you, and may God Bless these United States of America.
Please come help us bend the arc towards justice.
Thank you.
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