Share Our Selves
Share Our Selves Back to School Collection
Our annual collection of school supplies will be held at OCUUC on August 1 and 8. These items will be given to students of all ages in Costa Mesa and Santa Ana who cannot afford basic supplies in order to be successful in school. Share Our Selves has a special need this year for backpacks. Please check your newspaper for sales and purchase scrip at church to use for buying your donations. If you prefer for me to do the purchasing, I will collect cash and scrip (especially useful is Rite Aid and Longs/CVS).
Share Our Selves has need of English and Spanish speaking volunteers to stuff backpacks and help with distribution on Saturday August 28. For information on volunteering, contact Julie Larson at jlarson@shareourselves.org or 949-270-2100.
For more information about OCUUC's collection, contact Judith Stamper at sos@ocuuc.org. Thank you for your generosity.
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While the Share our Selves (SOS) local nonprofit organization provides emergency assistance year round, Orange Coast presently focuses on three major activities. They are:
1. Mother’s Day collection in May: Mother and baby items such as diapers, bottles, receiving blankets, clothes, and used and new equipment (car seats, cribs, high chairs, etc.) This year the Sewing/Kraft group made flannel receiving blankets to donate. We usually collect items on the patio on two Sundays.
2. Back to School in August: Backpacks and school supplies such as paper, pencils, markers, dictionaries. We usually collect items on the patio on two Sundays during the year.
3. Adopt a Family for the Holidays in December: Gifts and food for a holiday dinner for families whose names are supplied by SOS. We have people sign up to donate in a variety of ways: adopting a whole family, combining with others to adopt a family, or donating gifts, food, or cash to allow us to combine items for a family. This is our largest undertaking, and a good proportion of OCUUC members participate.
Contact Judith Stamper for more details.