All members & friends are welcome to join the efforts of the Social Justice Outreach Team
SJOT will not meet in December, our next meeting is on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 1:00 PM. Contact Charlotte Corrigan for access link to participate or observe
HELP WANTED: Dream Scholarship Committee volunteer
Barbara Yates occasionally needs help with administrative work for the Dream Scholarship Committee. If you would like to help out or want more information, contact Barbara @ yatesbarbara1@nullgmail.com
OUTREACH COLLECTION: YOUTH HUNGER
continues through 12/20
The Youth Hunger Collection is split between two local organizations addressing food insecurity: Feed the Kids Coalition and the Flat Rock Backpack Program. The collection will remain open through December 20.
Your donations will help local youngsters who live with food insecurity in their homes. In this time of year when we celebrate our many blessings of abundance, food insecurity remains a significant issue for many in our community. In these trying times of Covid-19, your donation is needed all the more. Many workers in our community are impacted severely by economic disruptions to their jobs and incomes; children should not suffer as a result of these hardships.
UUFH members volunteer regularly for these two organizations by providing a nutritious meal or filling a backpack with a weekend’s worth of non-perishable foods. UUFH has raised funds in support of these two organizations from their inception.
- Feed the Kids (FTK) provides a nutritious Friday afternoon meal to children enrolled in the Hendersonville Boys & Girls Club. FTK has responded to the pandemic by changing from served meals to take home meals of sandwiches and nutritious snacks.
- Backpack serves selected children at Atkinson and Upward Elementary schools, Flat Rock Middle School, Immaculata, and selected day care sites. Backpacks are assembled on Friday mornings and delivered to the sites by volunteers based at St. John in the Wilderness Church.
Please give generously:
Make your check out to UUFH, note “Youth Hunger” in the memo line, and mail to UUFH.
You can also donate directly via your account on the UUFH website; select the “Outreach Collection” option.