COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTS
Coordinated by the Social Action Committee, our members provide goods and service to the local community through these activities:
Adopt-a-Class, holiday gift project for children in the Head
Start Program. Contact
us for details.
Bread Project for Help House, bread donated by local bakers
is sold to support Help House which provides safe, decent,
affordable housing and social services for local homeless women
and children. Contact
us for details.
Cakes for Kids, made by those who enjoy baking, cakes are
donated to celebrate birthdays of children who, along with
their mothers, are victims of domestic violence and temporary
residents of Every Women’s House. Contact
us for details.
People to People Ministries, provides basic needs for local
people. Collection of cash and nonperishable food are taken
one Sunday a month from September through June. Contact
us for details.
Day of Change, an annual collection held on the Sunday of
the change to daylight savings time supports Orrville based
Friendship meals, a weekly meal program. Contact
us for details.
Viola Startzman Free Clinic, supported annually with a donation
from the Social Action Committee budget, provides medical services
to the needy of Wayne County.
PFLAG. The local branch of the
support group, Parents, Families and Friends of Gays and Lesbians,
receives an annual donation
from the Social Action Committee
budget.
Travelers’ Toiletries, soap, shampoo and conditioner
from stays in motels or hotels are donated to local shelters
for use by their temporary residents. Contact
us for details.
Helping in Hard Times Vision Council, sponsored by the United
Way, council members develop programs to educate the community
and help change public policy. Contact
us for details. |
