Current Requests

Gas cards for travel to cancer treatement

This request is to help ease the financial difficulties of a 25 year old woman undergoing cancer treatment. She is currently unable to work and is traveling back and forth from Lawrence to MD Anderson in Houston for her treatment. Additionally, she was getting ready to start grad. school when she found out about her cancer.

Here is what she needs from us; grocery cards, visa gift cards to purchase gas or food, or gas cards from Shell, Phillips 66, or Kwik Shop. The gift cards can be in any amount you choose. If you can help please let Emili know at emilistoll@hotmail.com and then drop your donation off at Hedges Insurance at 1035 Vermont.

August 7, 2010

Help with Groceries and Supplies

This request is for a women who is a diabetic and needs some help with groceries and supplies. She currently receives $40 a month in food stamps and spends most of her money on her diabetic medicine. She needs help with; grocery cards, laundry soap, dish soap, toilet paper and cleaning supplies. E-mail Emili if you can help.

July 19, 2010

Volunteer Opportunity

Are you able to donate time instead of money? Here's a great opportunity to help a woman organize her apartment. She has been battling brain cancer and currently has a broken ankle and clavicle. She is needing our help to feel like she is really living again. Because her rent takes all of her disability money, she could use a few cleaning products and household items to get her house in order too, (toilet paper, laundry soap, dish soap, cleaning supplies). If you can donate your skills to help get her house comfortable and organized or would like to donate some supplies please let Emili know.

July 19, 2010

Single mom needs maternity and baby items
Bert Nash is currently working with a single mom, her little girl and another baby girl on the way. The mother receives $287 a month in cash assistance from SRS and is also struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She is activity seeking a job, but is limited due to her condition. Additionally she is temporarily living with a friend.

She needs help with the following:

• crib sheets and blankets (any blankets will do.)
• summer maternity clothes, size large
• baby girl clothing for a sizes 0-3 and 3-6 months (she will be born in September)
• size 6 diapers
• clothing for her 3 year old daughter sizes 4T and 5T

Please e-mail Emili if you can offer any of these items. Items will then need to be dropped off at Hedges Insurance.

May 27, 2010

Haskell student personal supplies
We received a request from the Haskell counseling center looking for some necessary items for students staying on campus for summer school. They are in need of the following:

• deodorant
• razors
• liquid laundry soap
• personal hygiene items

Please drop them off at Roe Cloud Hall Counseling Center on the Haskell campus.

Please e-mail Emili if you can offer any of these items. THANKS!

May 27, 2010

Cards ... cards .... c a r d s . . . .
We have been getting quite a few requests for gas cards and grocery cards and our supplies for these cards have run low. If you would like to help supply gas and grocery cards to meet these needs, please take your cards to Hedges Insurance, 1035 Vermont. Melissa or Linda at Hedges will be glad to receive them.

May 7, 2010

Needs for a mom at Edgewood

She is looking for the following for her new apartment:

• electric dryer
• dresser
• baby walker that moves for her baby boy

Please contact Emili if you can help this mom.

May 7, 2010

Twin bed sheets

This request is from Diane at the homeless shelter. They decided to get some twin beds for the children and families to use during their stay. They are looking for a 1/2 dozen new or used twin sheets for the beds. They do not need the pillow cases. The children will love you for helping make them cozy at night!

Please drop the sheets off at the Lawrence Community Shelter located @ the corner of 10th and Kentucky.

May 7, 2010

Furnishings

We are in need of the following for 3 separate families:
3 twin beds or 1 twin bed and 1 bunk bed set
2 dressers
coffee table
easy chair
lamps
full sized bed frame
crib
small kitchen table and 2 chairs
twin sheets
full sheets
queen sheets
dishes
pots and pans
towels and wash rags
To Help: Contact Emili

May 7, 2010

Transportation
We have two types of transportation needs.
1. A car. We’re still looking for a good used car for a family desperately in need of transportation. They need to get to work and get their little guy to school. OR, we need to collect bus passes for the family.
2. Rides. We have a mom with a 20 month old and a 2 ½ year old with on going health problems. Their doctors are in Kansas City and do not have a car or family close by. We need people to help transport this family to their appointments in KC.
To Help: Contact Jennie 841-3453.

Special Dietary Needs
Bert Nash has a client who is low income and on food stamps, however she needs to eat gluten-free, peanut free and dairy-free (!!) and most pantries do not carry these type of foods and food stamps do not go far enough. She needs grocery cards from HyVee and The Merc. Any other suggestions will be appreciated.
To Help: Contact Jennie 841-3453.

Craft Items
A woman here from the Congo was recently “downsized”. Her husband is a PhD student at KU and they are struggling. She speaks very little English. She was a tailor in Kinshasa and would like to make clothes, purses, etc to sell at craft fairs, etc. and is in need of: cloth and/or cloth remnants, thread, needles (sewing machine and hand), ribbons, zippers, et al.
To Help: Contact Jennie 841-3453.

Misc Help
Removed from an abusive relationship, this woman needs help with some basic needs:
Lawn Mowing
Advice on Heating and AC unit that may needs repair (she wasn’t even allowed to touch the thermostat)
Move some large items in the house
Help organizing some packing
Help filling out unemployment forms
To Help: Contact Jennie 841-3453.

Coats for Kids
A reminder that the Lawrence School District has a Coats for Kids program. If you discover your child has outgrown a coat, would you please consider donating it to the District Clothing Room? Contact Cordley Elementary School. 1837 Vermont. Lawrence, KS 66044. 785-832-5640.

Mom Starting Over
Single mom starting over in Lawrence, has a job but currently no car. She is getting rides but would like to provide her driver with gas cards. She is also in need of a washer and dryer and child care for her 2 year old son from 5:30 until she gets a new schedule. If you can help email jennie@sunflower.com or call 841-3453.

Pads for Schools
A reminder that we are still collecting feminine hygiene products - pads - for the junior high schools. If you would like to donate items, please bring them to Hedges Insurance, 1035 Vermont during business hours, 841-0200.

Fill the Shelves
Our local food banks can always use additional help.  However, they are currently experiencing an increased need.  Please contact the pantry of your choice and help fill the shelves!  

Local pantries: 
Ballard Community Center 785-842-0729
ECKAN Community Action Agency 785-841-3357
Pelathe Center 785-841-7202
Penn House 785-842-0440
Salvation Army 785-843-4188
Social Service League Store 785-843-5414 

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