Social Outreach Ministry
Project Make-A-Difference, helping
Homebase Youth Services
|
|
By clipping coupons you can help the homeless and runaway youth in Arizona.
Homebase Youth Services is a 24-hour open door, 25-bed facility located near downtown Phoenix. Homebase helps the homeless and runaway youth in Arizona by providing for their basic human needs, as well as their long-term care. They serve between 400-500 homeless/runaways every month in the city of Phoenix.
Through our Project Make-A-Difference, food, household items and toiletries are provided to Home Base Youth Services at little or no cost. This is done through the simple act of cutting and sorting donated coupons. By subscribing to Coupon Sense over the Internet, we are notified of which items can be obtained for free by combining coupons with store sales. Service provided includes clipping coupons, shopping for free and inexpensive items and delivering items to Homebase.
In case you have wondered what happens to all of the Sunday paper coupon inserts you bring in, this excerpt from the HomeBase Youth Services newsletter, Reaching Out, will fill you in.
|
“A wonderful group of ladies meet faithfully every Thursday morning at La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church. They sort Sunday coupon packets that their congregation brings to the church each week and library them. There’s a Web site called ‘Coupon Sense’ that informs the group when they can get things for free with the coupons they collected.
“These ladies encourage their congregation to bring in toiletries from hotels after vacations or business trips. These hygiene items are the perfect size for a homeless youth with only a backpack to carry their most prized possessions in. The coupon clippers find other ways to get free things when people hear about the good works they are able to accomplish through hard work.
“The kids participating in the HomeBase Youth Services programs and services at the Outreach Center are always very appreciative and helpful bringing in the baskets of things they find for them. The outcomes of the efforts being made by the Coupon Clippers will continue to make a difference to the many youth in need serviced by HomeBase Youth Services.”
|
Thanks to all who bring in their SmartSource, Valassis, and P&G coupon inserts from the Sunday papers each week. Remember, you are welcome to clip out the coupons you use before bringing the rest of the insert in. If you would like to join the group that clips coupons on Thursday mornings, please contact Suzanne Farmer, 480-948-4033.
Team members:
Shirley Schmeiser
Suzanne Farmer
Nancy Holm
Phyllis Merritt
Darlene Auer
Jane Stoss
Betty Riege
