Charities
Bill's Kitchen
The
Evangelical School for the Deaf
San
Juan Community Library
Human Society of Puerto Rico
Asociación Educative Pro Desarrollo Humano de Culebra
Ronald Macdonald House
Each year The Newcomers Club of San Juan sponsor several local charities
and last year the club gave in excess of $40,000 to the nominated
charities. The Club is grateful to all those members and associates who
help support events and hope that everyone will continue to support our
fund raising efforts in the future. The charitable, non-profit
organizations who intend to apply for funds with Newcomers this year
(2006-2007) need to get their applications in by December 31 2005,
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In May 2005
we were very proud to award the following charities :
Bills Kitchen $15,000
Evangelical School for the Deaf
$4,610.34
Ass.Educative Pro Desarrollo Humano de Culebra $6,036.76
Ronald Macdonald House
$3,610.34
San Juan Community Library
$12,710.34
Total Amount:
$41,967.78
These funds
all came with the help of our club members, generous corporate
support from the community at large and corporate sponsorship.
Thank you to all who so graciously supported our fund raising
efforts in
2004-2005 |
The following 5 Charities are the
Newcomers Club of San Juan chosen ones for 2005-2006, these will benefit
from our fund raising efforts throughout the year.
Bill's Kitchen
Helping HIV/AIDS Victims
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 Bill's
Kitchen needs your plastic bags!!! What do you do with
all the extra bags you collect from the
supermarket.............Bill's Kitchen needs them.
We also need
tins of Diet Fruit, ie. in light syrup or light juice.
Please contact
Newcomers for more information
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Bill's Kitchen
provides meals and nutritional counseling for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Newcomer Sara Bawa founded the kitchen after her son, Bill died of AIDS.
After helping him and others through their illness in a similar
organization in Seattle, she came to Puerto Rico determined to do
something about the great need she saw in the streets of San Juan.
Each week, the organization serves almost 320 clients in San Juan and 120
in Fajardo, depending on the services of 20 permanent staff members,
including professionals and support personnel as well as over 150
volunteers. Most of their clients have either poor or non-existing
family support systems. Currently Newcomers funding provides the
fresh fruits and vegetables on the carryout plates delivered daily to
shut-ins. Also through hard work and determination, the club raised enough
money for the kitchen to purchase a van. The support of Newcomers group
and others, has made possible that we could initiate new services to the
Bayamón area during the month of May. Thanks for being part of all
of these achievements.
The Evangelical School for
the Deaf
The Evangelical School for the Deaf
In 1957, missionaries who were ministering to the deaf
in Jamaica answered God's call to bring the Gospel to the deaf in Puerto
Rico. These new missionaries quickly learned that most of the deaf were
illiterate. Without a language, how could these deaf understand the
Gospel?
The first step for the missionaries was to establish a
school. They opened a school in a farm house in Luquillo. Later, a two
story building was erected to house three classrooms, a library and
audio/visual room downstairs and a boys' dorm with dorm counselors'
residence upstairs.
Since these modest beginnings, the school has grown
steadily, and hundreds of students have passed through it. The Evangelical
School for the Deaf is a Non Profit Organization under the United States
tax code. In the 70s, the missionaries at ESD desired to change to a
different home mission board and now serve under World Mission to the Deaf
based in Whitby, Ontario, Canada.
We save Campbell's soup labels. The majority of the
school's equipment has always come from the Campbell's 'Labels for
Education' Program. Only US products are accepted. If you live in the
States, please send us your labels (front section only). We collected
76,000+ labels this school year (thanks to your efforts) and 'banked' them
with the Campbell's Labels for Education program towards a future purchase
of educational equipment. Check the contact section for our address.
More information can be found at:
Campbell's Labels
for Education
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Pictures taken of upper classmen 5/05/04
Classes are in session through May 20, 2025 Classes resume in August, 2004
San Juan Community Library
A community lending Library for Adults and Children
San Juan Community Library @ BUCAPLAA
--Supporting and
Strengthening our Bilingual Community--
Our library started with the dream to create a
lending library that truly supports our unique bilingual community. Our
doors are open to everyone. It is our endeavor to reach and encourage
every age group at any level of skill to continually pursue the enrichment
provided by books and the computer age. Our steady and beloved companion
on this journey has been the Newcomers Club of San Juan. This energetic
and enthusiastic group has supported our continued growth with their time,
energy, and fund raising efforts.
The main reading room of our library sparkles
with capital improvements provided over the years by the Newcomers. From
our custom built mahogany bookcases to our network of four computers with
high speed internet access to our staff computer, printer/fax/scanner and
photocopier, to our welcomed awnings, we shine with equipment purchased
with funds received from the Newcomers. Our patrons are grateful for the
impact these improvements have had on their use of the library, and our
staff of volunteers has been able to serve our patrons more efficiently
because of them. This year's funding will be used to remodel our
Conference Room, which will be named in honor and recognition of the Club.
The improvements to this room will provide another service to our patrons
and the community at large.
Please feel free to call us at 787-789-4600 or
to log on to our website at
www.sjclibrary.org to learn more about our
library...your library.
Our staff is comprised of volunteers and we
welcome and appreciate new volunteers. Come visit this gem of a
library! Our growing inventory of over 16,000 books spans diverse
topics. With great pride we continue to develop our Puerto Rican
collection and our New Archive Files on Puerto Rican towns and cities.
Thank you for your vital role in making our
dream a reality of great durability.
...A
room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero
Humane Society of Puerto Rico
"If you have men who
will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and
pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man."
Saint Francis of Assissi
The Humane Society of
Puerto Rico is a private non-profit corporation and they depend on
donations from people like you to continue their efforts in saving animals
lives. For the past 43 years, the Humane Society of Puerto Rico (HSPR)
has been nurturing animals, providing a refuge for the lost, the sick, the
aged, and the unwanted. HSPR also has a low-cost spay/neuter
program. They need help finding homes for these precious animals.
You can adopt a pet at their facilities, provide assistance by walking the
dogs, playing with the animals and or bringing donations from their wish
list.
"Mission Statement"
“To promote the health and welfare of animals and to alleviate the
suffering of animals; to pursue a policy of public education directed
towards the humane treatment and welfare of animals; to provide a low cost
program of sterilization and to promote the sterilization of animals; to
promote the adoption of animals by owners aware of the responsibility and
obligations of ownership and to work with others towards those ends; and
to carry out all other activities necessary, proper and related to the
foregoing
Ronald Macdonald House
"working to
improve the lives of children"
Fundación
Infantil Ronald McDonald (FIRM) of Puerto Rico is a non-profit
organization established in Puerto Rico in 1991. We have worked over the
years to create, find and support programs that directly improve the
health and well being of children, from providing aid in post-hurricane
crises to most recently awarding 25 scholarships to high school graduates,
as well as remodeling areas within local children’s hospitals to make them
more child-friendly or to upgrade medical facilities.
Our
current efforts are towards opening the first Ronald McDonald House in
Puerto Rico which will serve families throughout the Caribbean. Casa
Ronald McDonald will provide a “home-away-from-home” for families of
seriously ill children who are receiving treatment at nearby hospitals.
Many times families travel to San Juan to seek medical attention for their
children. If they are not from nearby and cannot afford a hotel, they are
forced to sleep on hospital chairs or even the floor. Casa Ronald
McDonald will allow these families to stay in the home near their children
for a minimal nightly fee. San Jorge Children’s Hospital has donated
property directly across the street from the hospital to be used for this
purpose.
The
success of this program depends on corporate and individual donations, the
direction and support of our Board of Directors and staff, Ronald McDonald
House Charities and numerous volunteers.
 Volunteers are one of our biggest assets.
They are essential in our fundraising activities and will be a critical
element of the operations team once the house opens this Winter 2004. We
need your help with fundraising projects, event planning, computer/office
work, etc. Volunteering is a great way to meet people and make new
friends, learn about your community and support others during difficult
times. Our volunteers will make Casa Ronald McDonald a
“home-away-from-home”!
To learn
more about Fundación Infantil Ronald McDonald, contact:
Vivian
Hernandez – President, or
Brandi
Hale – Executive Director
(787)748-8287
If you are ready to volunteer, call Brandi Hale at 787 748 8287
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Asociación Educative Pro Desarrollo
Humano de Culebra
The
Educative Association for Human Development of Culebra, Inc. was founded
in 1985 by a group of parents in order to find ways to provide services
for Culebra's special needs population. Newcomers helped to
establish a nurse home-visitation program to improve prenatal care and to
help reduce child abuse and neglect. Newcomers funding also helps
provide the psychological evaluation that special needs children must have
before they can enter school, including transportation from San Juan, as
there are no resident psychologists on the tiny Island. Another
Newcomers initiative is a car seat rental program enabling 24 Culebra
babies to ride safely.
Although not one of our 2005-2006
chosen charities we would still like to support this wonderful and
much needed little school on the beautiful Island of Culebra. We
shall be providing the annual Children's Xmas Gifts, collected from
our Newcomer Members as well as a couple of cash collections during
the year to cover certain needy items. |
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