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Garage Giveaway - American Volunteers
Can you imagine moving to a new country with only what you can squeeze into two suitcases? We want to assist our new international students in furnishing their apartments. Many of these students have nothing when they come - no bed, no desk, no lamps!
Many of us have good things we no longer use, but we don't know how to find someone who needs them. Well we have many students who we can help in a big way!
The "Garage Giveaway" will be held the third week of August during the week of the UMKC International Student Orientation, August 18, 1:00pm - 3:30pm. We hold this at Central United Methodist Church, 5144 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO, 816-753-1844.
The Kind of Help needed:
People to help collect and organize the items before Giveaway
People to help with the "Giveaway" that afternoon - 25 volunteers
People with vans or trucks to help transport furniture to the students' apartments 6+
We need people to donate items for the students' apartments
Please start looking around your house for things you would like to donate to a student setting up an apartment.
You can bring NEW ITEMS TOO!!
We have even had church children's ministries and Vacation Bible Schools raise money and give brand new lamps, microwaves, rice-cookers and towels for the Giveaway.
Items to bring include:
Furniture: desks, tables,
Lamps (make sure it is working and it is nice to provide with a light bulb). HUGE NEEDS in this area!
Dishes, pots & pans, microwave ovens, rice-cookers
Kitchen utensils
Sheets, blankets, towels, pillows - clean, nothing old and worn
And working BICYCLES
Items not to bring:
NO broken, worn or damaged things please!)
Only bring items that you would want your son or daughter to use in their living space.
NO CLOTHING!
We no longer can we accept beds unless they are brand new.
Please contact Carol Douglass if you can assist in any way, and tell us what type of items you can donate or what you can help do.
Please use the Items Donated Form if you would like a tax receipt for your donations.
Many of us have good things we no longer use, but we don't know how to find someone who needs them. Well we have many students who we can help in a big way!
The "Garage Giveaway" will be held the third week of August during the week of the UMKC International Student Orientation, August 18, 1:00pm - 3:30pm. We hold this at Central United Methodist Church, 5144 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO, 816-753-1844.
The Kind of Help needed:
People to help collect and organize the items before Giveaway
People to help with the "Giveaway" that afternoon - 25 volunteers
People with vans or trucks to help transport furniture to the students' apartments 6+
We need people to donate items for the students' apartments
Please start looking around your house for things you would like to donate to a student setting up an apartment.
You can bring NEW ITEMS TOO!!
We have even had church children's ministries and Vacation Bible Schools raise money and give brand new lamps, microwaves, rice-cookers and towels for the Giveaway.
Items to bring include:
Furniture: desks, tables,
Lamps (make sure it is working and it is nice to provide with a light bulb). HUGE NEEDS in this area!
Dishes, pots & pans, microwave ovens, rice-cookers
Kitchen utensils
Sheets, blankets, towels, pillows - clean, nothing old and worn
And working BICYCLES
Items not to bring:
NO broken, worn or damaged things please!)
Only bring items that you would want your son or daughter to use in their living space.
NO CLOTHING!
We no longer can we accept beds unless they are brand new.
Please contact Carol Douglass if you can assist in any way, and tell us what type of items you can donate or what you can help do.
Please use the Items Donated Form if you would like a tax receipt for your donations.
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