COMMUNITY'S CHILD

Community's Child is a nondenominational Christian program committed to providing homeless women with infants healthy alternatives to abuse, poverty, addictions, and hopelessness.
The program offers homeless women and their infants a safe, compassionate, yet structured living environments. At Community's Child, women acquire the education, skills training, employment opportunities and support services, necessary to break the patterns associated with homelessness.

Healthy Bag Volunteer opportunities: Donation pick-up on Wednesday nights in Gardena at 6pm (please call for more information). Weekly organizing Wednesday morning from 9am-12pm: You will be sorting and organizing the pantry for the volunteers on Thursday. Bagging every Thursday from 10am-12pm: you will package hundreds of bags for the volunteers to pick up on Friday. Delivery every Friday (time varies): You will be delivering the bags that we packaged to each school in your vehicle. Please contact Amy @ (310) 534-4040 ext. 301 if you are interested in helping out or for more information.

 Quilter’s Plus

Come sew simple quilts to give to new parents of preemie's in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Harbor UCLA Hospital. The quilts are placed over the top of the newborn’s bed or isolette to block the light from the baby. The quilts also help to brighten the NICU, making it a bit more cheery and more like home.  When the newborn is discharged, the quilt will go home with him or her.  Bring a sack lunch, your portable sewing machine and enjoy the fellowship of other quilters/sewers. Contact Loretta Duvall at lhduvall@gmail.com or 310.483.8463.

Laundry Love Outreach

St. Peter’s has committed to serving on the first and third Wednesday of each month. A group of 5-7 volunteers from St. Peter’s usually carpool (due to limited parking) to the Laundromat on the corner of 1st and Bandini Street in San Pedro (when you drive by you will see the Laundry Love banner outside). We normally arrive around 6 PM. Some days there is a line of people waiting for us. We always start with a prayer - standing in a circle with the people we are going to serve. Then the work begins

First – Laundry. Our brothers and sisters come from a variety of backgrounds – homeless, poor, in recovery, all ages ..but they all want to have clean clothes, sheets, towels and blankets...just like us. We provide money and soap, they provide dirty clothes. We fill the washers and dryers with coins, they put in their clothes. Second – Love (the best part of the evening). While the clothes are washing or drying...we have an opportunity to talk about...well whatever our brothers or sisters want to talk about. You do not have to go every month ...but we will warn you, after a couple months you will be hooked and want to make time every month. We would love to have you join us ...please contact Alex Perez at 310.505.8483 or Tamera Johnson at educateteaj@gmail.com or 818.415.8552