House of Hope – Please get involved!
Work Parties May 1 and May 8th
The “House of Hope” project; renovation and beautification of the Skagit Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services (SDV & SAS) safe house shelter for women and children is underway. Currently, the shelter houses, on average, 20-30 women and children each month, and also provides outreach programs to support those women in taking steps towards improving their circumstances.
1 of the bedrooms and the living and dining rooms are still in need of being adopted. Other needs are also being sought out such as donation of various supplies, labor and other general needs for the house. Even if your organization can not contribute the full amount for one of the rooms, every little bit helps!
House of Hope Renovation Budget Endorsement Request Letter
Once the service project is complete there will be an open house at the agencies office where all sponsors, donors and volunteers will be properly recognized. Those involved who would like public acknowledgment will be included in several press releases as well as tentatively planned media coverage from KVOS.
The first work party is this Saturday, May 1. Those who wish to participate are asked to first come to the agencies office to go over a very brief confidentiality orientation and then from there the work will start.
The orientation will begin at 9am at 1521 Leigh Way, Mt. Vernon, Wa 98274.
The next work party is on Saturday May 8th with orientation beginning at 9am at the same address.
Following orientation the work party will be taken to the safe house.
The services that this agency provides are significant to the welfare of our community. It is our hope that other members of the community will find in this project an opportunity to contribute to those in need. Our ultimate goal is to foster long term relationships between the businesses, business leaders of this
community and the agency itself.
If this project touches your heart like it did ours, please seek out how you can get involved.
You may call Erin the shelter’s supervisor at 360-336-9591 or email her at erins@skagitdvsas.org
You may mail contributions directly to:
Skagit DV & SAS
House of Hope
P.O. Box 301
Mt. Vernon, WA 98273
The agencies website is http://www.skagitdvsas.org/
Life Doesn’t Have to be a Load of Laundry
As I stood above a pile of freshly cleaned laundry; I pondered.
Clothes get dirty, go through the wash, spin cycle, tossed around in the drier to come out to be piled up to be put away. With this same process repeating within a few days. Thoughts as simple as how much time do I spend in a week, month or year merely completing this remedial task some of us call laundry. I think that if I took the time to really track it; I would probably be depressed by the amount of time dedicated to this simple task. Looking to the positive; I personally use this chore as one of many means to interact with my daughter. I let her help me with each step in the process and she is affirmed that she is a big helper.
Following the trail of another thought lead me to think about my life and some of those around me. Allowing ourselves to repeat the same patterns over and over. Momentarily come to a form of self realization and feel good about a personal discovery often times to then allow ourselves to be burdened by the very same issue yet again whether it be days, weeks or even months later.
I personally want out of the spin cycle. Of course we all need to come out of the closet and allow ourselves to get dirty in this illusion we call life, but is there a benefit to blindly repeating the same miss guided patterns over and over. I think not. A friend of mine shared her belief that we all have specific lessons that we are each here to learn and we will keep repeating those same issues until we get it right. It could be different situations with different people, but the same under lying challenge that we have to surmount.
So I guess the question to ask; am I ready to get out of the spin cycle and if not why?