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Mar, 2014

Easter Sunday (4/20/14)

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Hey, everyone!  Come and volunteer at Martin Luther King Jr Park on Sunday (April 20th @10am) in South Los Angeles to feed the homeless and the less fortunate. This is our Monthly Food & Clothes giveaway, so we also need help with distribution of donations. Be there by 10 am- we will stay UNTIL EVERYTHING IS GONE (usually about 2-4 hours).  Please try and bring a tray of food or drinks so that we can make sure there is enough for everyone.

Also,

~~We feed the Homeless Dogs & Cats at Martin Luther King Jr Park. If you would like to Donate Dog food or Cat food, please bring some to the Event~~

Please text Claudia (323) 812-9836 or Kari (310) 408-2095 with YOUR NAME and that you will be there April 20th and DON’T FORGET to mention the dish(es) or the items you can bring. THE MORE, THE BETTER!

For those that cant make it, we are also accepting donations. These items are truly needed!

*Childrens, womens and mens clothing.
*Shoes, Sandals
*Bras, Socks, Underwear
*Blankets, Sheets, Towels, Pillows
*Water, Soda, Juice
*Toys, Books, Dictionaries, Pens, Pencils, etc.
*Food: Canned Goods, Non Perishable items, Snacks
*Pads, Tampons, Toilet Paper, Laundry Soap
*Toothpaste, Tooth Brushes, Razors, Deodorant, Combs etc.

*Dog & Cat food, blankets and toys.

ANYTHING, new or used can be recycled with purpose! Broken? Don’t throw it away- donate it!

Needed items can be found on our Walmart ‘Wish List’.

Make a monetary donation towards the Easter Sunday event here.

**Cant make it this month? Don’t worry, we will be hosting these events every 3rd Sunday of each month. So save your donations! 🙂 “Do good, Receive good.”

MLK JR PARK: 3900 Western Ave., Los Angeles, California 90062

**Los Angeles donation pick up/drop off Claudia (323) 812-9836

**Downey/surrounding cities donation pick up/drop off Dessirae (562) 652-9329

**Baldwin Park/surrounding cities donation pick up/drop off Angie (626) 478-4330

On Saturday, March 14, 2014,, from 9am-11am, LAC9 will get together with Coast Communities, Skid Row Cleanup to help clean up Downtown LA.

Where:  The SW corner of 5th Street and Crocker Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013.

Parking:  Free street parking on 4th, 6th and 7th St, east of their intersections with San Pedro St.

Attire:  Wear clothing that covers the entire body and waterproof shoes. Hats and sunglasses are recommended

Their Website: http://www.skidrowcleanup.com

You may contact Skidrow Cleanup directly at  (213) 293-6933  or  

or contact LAC9 at  (323) 812-9836 or  

***Skid Row Cleanup only has enough equipment for 10 people.  I recommend we bring some equipment, such as brooms and trash bags***

The whole session is about 2 hours and we’ll finish around 11am. There is plenty of free parking on 4th street, east of its intersection with San Pedro street. You can park there all day. Then you walk 1 block South to our location by 5th & Crocker.

Let me know if you need more info. Talk to you soon

**PLEASE JOIN US for a couple hours… be a part of this awesome group of generous individuals that have the same compassion in helping the community**

LAC9 will be having a Canned Food Drive for both humans and animals. We are collecting any canned food you can spare to benefit the homeless, less fortunate families and their animals on April 30, 2014.

All collected cans may be dropped off, before 4/30/14, at:

333 West 66th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90003

We also have drop off locations in the surrounding areas of Los Angeles; I will update this event info as soon as I get drop off locations and phone numbers. Thank you!

LAC9 will be teaming up with The Compassion Project to help the homeless community living on Venice Beach.  Please consider donating to The Compassion Project; everything donated will be distributed to the homeless at Venice Beach.

Per Staci Wilkes:

Friends, don’t forget we are in need of socks, shoes and clothes for the event I’m doing in Venice Beach for the homeless! They are in desperate need of these items and so I want to have the event either end of this week or early next week. Please go through your closets & ask friends/family members to do the same!  If you don’t have any items you yourself are getting rid of, then how about either making a monetary donation or going to the store and purchasing something to donate?  I know The Dollar Tree now sells socks and I believe even t-shirts. Ross also has cheap socks, underwear, boxers, etc. Please let me know if you have donations and I will arrange to pick up!  If you choose to make a monetary donation, my Paypal is: . Thank you!

For further information, please contact Staci Wilkes at (818) 912-1710 or Claudia Perez at (323)812-9836.

 

The Compassion Project, Venice Beach

Come and volunteer to feed the homeless and the less fortunate at Martin Luther King Jr Park on Sunday, March 16th, @10am in South Los Angeles. This is our Monthly Food & Clothes Giveaway!  We also need help with distribution of donations. LAC9 will be there by 10am and UNTIL EVERYTHING IS GONE (usually about 2-4 hours). Please try and bring a tray of food or drinks so that we can make sure there is enough for everyone.

We also feed the Homeless Dogs & Cats at Martin Luther King Jr Park. If you would like to donate dog or cat food, please bring some to the event. Thank you!

Please text Claudia (323) 812-9836 or Kari (310) 408-2095 with YOUR NAME and let us know you will be there on March 16 and PLEASE DON’T FORGET to mention the dish(es) or the items you can bring. THE MORE, THE MERRIER!

For those that can’t make it, these items/donations are truly needed:

*Children’s, women’s and men’s clothing.
*Shoes, Sandals
*Bras, Socks, Underwear
*Blankets, Sheets, Towels, Pillows
*Water, Soda, Juice
*Toys, Books, Dictionaries, Pens, Pencils etc
*Food, Canned goods, non perishable items, snacks
*Pads, Tampons, Toilet Paper, Laundry Soap
*Toothpaste, Toothbrushes, Razors, Deodorant, Combs etc.
*Dog & Cat food, blankets and toys

ANYTHING, new or used!  Broken? Don’t throw it away. Donate it!

Items needed for L.A. on Cloud9 can be found on our Wal-Mart ‘Wish List’ or you can make a monetary donation.

**Cant make it this month? Don’t worry, we will be hosting these events every 3rd Sunday of each month. So save your donations! 🙂 “Do good, Receive good**

MLK JR PARK : 3900 Western Ave., Los Angeles, California 90062

**Los Angeles donation pick up/drop off Claudia (323) 812-9836

**Downey/surrounding cities donation pick up/drop off Dessirae (562) 652-9329

**Baldwin Park/surrounding cities donation pick up/drop off Angie (626) 478-4330

This event is specifically done to help Monday Night Mission to collect blankets, sleeping bags, socks and beanies. LA on Cloud9 will start collecting these items now and will deliver them to Monday Night Mission on March 17, 2014. Our group will get together and volunteer with Monday Night Mission to distribute these item at Skid Row for our homeless brothers and sisters.

** Please let LA on Cloud9 know if you have any of these items laying around; we will schedule a pick up or drop off. We have volunteers all over the Los Angeles area, as well as Long Beach, IE and the Valley***

**All Items can also be dropped off to Monday Night Mission**

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1500 in 20 days!

Angelinos,

As some of you may know, the City of LA has an emergency winter shelter program that runs from December 1st through March 15th. The objective of this program is to safeguard our homeless population from being exposed to low temperatures. The program provides shelter for approximately 1500 people.

As of the March 15, all of the 1500 individuals will have NO access to shelter, food, hygiene items nor clothing and blankets. Many of these folks will temporarily come to Skid Row until they can travel to different areas.

As light as the winter is in LA, the temperature still drops below 60 degrees at night, well until the middle of April. While this can be tolerable when you’re under a roof, sleeping under the stars on cold pavement is a whole different story.

Take into account that we also have a significantly high senior homeless population in LA; they often suffer from things like heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes, as well as other ailments. With little access to proper healthcare for these folks, sleeping in the cold can become deadly.

To aid our homeless brothers and sisters, who will be leaving the winter shelters, we will be delivering blankets to Skid Row on Monday, March 17th. We will also be delivering hygiene kits, as these folks will no longer have proper access to bathrooms.

We need your help!

Any blankets, sleeping bags, socks, beanies, either new or lightly used- but clean, would greatly help these folks survive until the conditions get warmer. Hygiene kits or individual items such as soap, small bottles of moisturizer, shampoo, hand sanitizer, razors, female hygiene products, and wet naps would be useful for people to not only stay clean, but to keep up their self-esteem.

Please email us if you have any of these items to donate. Anything and everything helps!

Thank you,

Mel Tillekeratne
Monday Night Mission

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

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Feb, 2014

Homeless Care Package LA

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The majority of the homeless community don’t have the bare necessities and are financially able to buy hygienic products.

LAC9 wants to provide these items to those in need. We want to be able to hand out a Hygiene Care Package to our brothers and sisters on the streets of South Los Angeles and Skid Row, Los Angeles.

Items needed:

-Toilet Paper Rolls
-Toothpaste
-Toothbrushes
-Body cleansing wipes
-Lip Balm / Chap Stick / Carmex / Blistex
-Body Wash, Liquid Soap, Facial Cleanser
-Combs / Brushes / Bobby Pins (in original packaging, please)
-Deodorant (travel size)
-Shaving Cream in Tubes / Shaving Soap (No CANS of Shaving -Cream!)
-Hand & Body Lotion / Moisturizer (travel size)
-Sunblock, SPF 45, Zinc, Vitamin E, Aloe Vera Gel
-Bug Spray / DEET / Skin-So-Soft
-Mouthwash (travel size)
-Breath Mints / Breath Strips
-Wash Cloths
-Nail Files / Emery Boards / Nail Clippers
-Feminine Hygiene Products

You can also DONATE to help with the purchasing of items.  We will make Hygiene Bags and hand them out on the streets of South Los Angeles and Skid Row. You can also drop off donations; please contact Claudia Perez at (323) 812-9836. Thank you!

A group of Hair Stylist would like to donate their skills and compassion by giving haircuts to as many homeless people as possible on Sunday, February 23rd, 2014.

Please join us while we host our very 1st Hair Cut Event!  Come and see the transformation and the magic a hair cut can give someone who hasn’t had one in so long!

We are in need of supplies for this event.  If you are able to donate any of the items listed below, it would make this event a total success:

-Barber combs
-Disposable drapes
-Spray bottles
-Paddle brushes
-Baby Powder/ dusting brushes
-Hair accessories for women
-Gel or Hair Spray
-Long, rectangular mirrors
-Clippers

If you would like to contribute to this event, please contact Claudia at (323) 812-9836.  We definitely need the help.

Thank you!

Old shoes, new shoes, good shoes, bad shoes… any SHOES!  We all need them, we all want them and we all must have them.  Can you imagine not owning even one pair?

Unfortunately, so many DON’T have shoes, so they walk around barefoot and in pain.   A Good friend of mine, Blanca Villalpando, sent me a message about her concerns of a few homeless men she sees daily by her office in Downtown LA. She mentioned donating a few pairs of shoes to them so they wouldn’t have to walk barefoot in this freezing weather! Thanks to her, LAC9 will host ” Walk with Shoes on LA Streets.”  We will collect as many shoes as possible and give them all out in Downtown LA (Skid Row, Los Angeles).

If you have any old shoes laying around that you don’t need any more, please consider donating them by giving them to someone in need! We will be collecting shoes all throughout December and January.  On February 1st, we will go down to Skid-Row and host a shoe drive.  Everyone is welcome to volunteer- your help is much appreciated!

We have decided that, this year, we will be delivering Christmas gift to the children at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.  LAC9 wants to serve Children’s Hospital Los Angeles families who are financially unable to provide for themselves and their children during this holiday season. Having a chronically ill child has a tremendous impact, emotionally and financially, on the entire family. Let’s make a child smile this year by giving them gifts over the Christmas Holiday.

Children’s Hospital has a Holiday Donation Schedule, Suggested Holiday wish list, things they cannot accept and Toy Donation Guidelines.

We want to make sure we follow these guidelines to ensure that the children receive them.

Holiday Donation Schedule:
Children’s Hospital will accept our Toys on
Dec. 18, 2013 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

**Unfortunately, Due to infection control issues, they cannot coordinate personal deliveries of our toys to the patients directly** we will be dropping them off at the Hospital and let them know that all these toys came from generous volunteer of LAC9; anyone who wants to be part of this drop off can join us at the Hospital ♥

Suggested Holiday Wish List:
Below are the items that the Children’s Hospital needs the most for the holidays. (We appreciate multiples of the same gift in quantities of 30 whenever possible.)

-Generic coloring books
-Crayons
-Playdoh
-Bubbles (regular individual size)
-Uno cards
-Medical first aid kits
-Baby rattlers
-Gift cards to Target, Wal-Mart and Amazon

Things they cannot accept:
To prevent infection, they ONLY accept new and unwrapped gifts for infants, children and adolescents. Once they receive our gift, they sort and sanitize the gifts to further prevent infection. Furthermore, unwrapped gifts ensure that children and adolescents are given gifts that are appropriate to their age and developmental levels.

**Flowers, Edible Gifts and Holiday Treats
Due to their infection control policy they cannot accept these items**

Toy Donation Guidelines:
The Children’s Hospital appreciates the generosity of donors like us who help them continue their tradition of providing toys to the patients at key points in their recovery. Below is the criteria that they ask that we follow when making our toy donations to help them maintain patient safety and well-being.

*To prevent infection, they only accept new toys, books and DVD’s.
*They cannot accept stuffed toys or toys with small pellets or beans.
*Toys should be sturdy and free of any parts which may pinch.
* Please avoid toys which can break easily and leave sharp edges. (i.e. made of glass or brittle plastic)
*They do NOT accept or distribute toys that are designed to promote aggressive behaviors (e.g. toy weapons of any kind nor violent video games or movies).
* All craft materials must be non-toxic (e.g., markers, glue, paint)

If you want to do something nice this Christmas and help someone in need, especially a child, be part of this Toy Drive! We will start collecting the toys on Dec 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, the day of drop off.

Thank you!