Our December 2006 action "Fill a wish" - we collected donations for the Oasis Women Center in Alton, IL - was a great success. At the Oasis Center women and their children victims of domestic abuse and violence find shelter. Many of them leave home without even the necessary clothing and hygiene items.
Many generous faculty, staff, and even students, participated in our action and donated all needed items. Couple of offices - Bursar, Continuing Education - adopted our action as their Christmas office celebration.
All of you making these generous donations are amazing members of our SIUE family!
On behalf of all who will benefit of your donations the AAUW SIUE branch presents our thanks and appreciation!
We wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year too!
Couple of pictures with our two fully loaded cars with your generous donations are posted below.
We collected new items:
-diapers all sizes
-baby sleepers all sizes
-toys for all ages
-batteries AA and AAA
-towels and wash clothes
-sheets (twin and full size)
-pillow cases
-women personal items
-women beauty care
-hair brushes
-bath and body works (all kind of items)
-hand sanitizer & hand wash
-bubble bath
-postage stamps
-women underwear (all sizes)
-back pack for kids for school
-Children clothes and underwear
-crafts and building crafts for kids to work on
Among donations were also monetary donations and used clothing for women and children (all sizes).
Since their need is constant we will continue to gather donations.
We hope to repeat this action in the Spring of 2007 when people usually do their Spring cleaning.
