What Happened in December

  • Holiday Store 2012*The Family Kitchen served 3,039 lunches, 550 dinners, and 785 breakfasts. 410 meals and snacks were served in the youth program. Overall, 5,194 meals were served.
  • *141  low-income seniors received commodity food packages delivered to their homes with a special surprise of fresh fruit.
  • *461 volunteers contributed over 1,845.50 hours of service to Baldwin, valued at $40,148.
  • *Winter hats and gloves were distributed to 202 clients.
  • *The Clothes Closet had 800 shoppers and 22 families cleaned 75 loads of laundry.
  • *16 new mothers received diapers and two received layettes.
  • *Eighteen families no longer face eviction and eight families were protected from utility shutoffs. Assistance totaled $7,789.00.
  • *Two families received emergency food supplies.
  • *Employees at Chrysler headquarters stuffed seven festive Durango’s filled with gifts for the Holiday store.
  • *Twelve new clients enrolled in the GED program.
  • *On average 32 children attended the after school program each day.
  • *Twelve birthdays were celebrated, and 13 women received hygiene products.
  • *A class from Derby Middle School spent a day volunteering.
  • *Volunteers from Genysis prepared, and volunteers from Chrysler and Flagstar Bank distributed, 400 Christmas Food Baskets that included a turkey, fresh produce, canned goods and paper items.
  • *Baldwin assisted the Pontiac Public Schools with distributing food for 300 needy families in the district.
  • *The youth center had a Christmas festival that included stamping and embossing holiday cards, decorating cupcakes, making felt flowers and painting ornaments.
  • *Volunteers from Pontiac High School began volunteering weekly.
  • *50 extra turkeys were given to Grace and Peace food pantry and another 40 were given to Transform Pontiac Now who cooked and delivered meals to shut-ins on Christmas Eve.
  • *Manure was spread in the gardens in preparation for spring planting.
  • *Volunteers prepared for the Food distribution and Holiday Store on three different weekend work days.
  • *14 individuals met with an Oakland County Health Department nurse during the soup kitchen.
  • *300 families (1,300 individuals) were provided clothing and gifts at the Holiday Store.  Gifts were generously provided by corporations, churches, clubs and individual families.
  • *Six women attended yoga classes.
  • *31 children are now paired with volunteers for individual tutoring.
  • *A Christmas Day dinner was provided for 90 community members and each received small gifts of socks, cookies and candy.
  • *Zoup and Mike Larco al a Carte provided meals in the soup kitchen as part of Feed The Need.
  • *Six people took showers.
  • *Toast sponsored a holiday meal and ice cream bar for the kids in the after school program in addition to providing breakfast burritos for the youth on the 3rd.

 

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