[Lekooks] Family Promise Update for Everyone, Trained and Untrained Volunteers

[Sarah Ehrhardt]

Hi all-
Willing to provide food, gift cards, hygiene products.... just let me know
when and where to drop off. Thank you for the opportunity to still serve
while staying safe -
Sarah

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 4:47 PM William Lizdas via Lekooks <
lekooks at lekook.org> wrote:

> Thanks, Gina,
>
> for this update, and especially for your continued dedication during this
> difficult time. Being in Madison, I can’t respond quickly for being the
> “handy person” in the apt., but am happy to join a cleaning crew between
> families. Because of my distance and the virus, I’m no longer able to be an
> “official" Volunteer Coordinator, but you know I’ll help wherever and
> whenever I can. I’ll keep our next host week (Mar 21-27) open for whatever
> I can do.
>
> Miss you, and all of my Family Promise compatriots,
>
> All love,
> Bill
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> On Jan 28, 2021, at 4:18 PM, Gina Magnus via Lekooks <lekooks at lekook.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Family Promise of Waukesha County has been working throughout the pandemic
> and continues to be responsive to the needs of this very vulnerable
> population.  The focus shifted to preventing homelessness.  While
> prevention continues to be a priority, we are back to serving in a limited
> way by housing a family in an apartment that Family Promise rents.  We have
> successfully housed one family and hope to build our way up to hosting up
> to four families in four apartments over time.  The plan is to return to
> the old rotating model when it is safe to do so.
>
> Our host week is March 21-27.  Those who would like to help out by
> providing whatever is asked of us that week need NOT be trained
> volunteers.  We will not be in direct contact with our family (ies).  We
> may be asked for food, prepared meals, gift cards, hygiene products,
> etc.... We will not know what is needed until the week before we host.  I
> will be in touch with you as we get closer to that date.
>
> Other opportunities:
>  1 - be a handy"person" on call during the day to help with minor
> fixes/repairs in the apartment
>  2 - be part of a limited cleaning crew to clean the apartment(s) between
> families
>  3 - volunteer to update the area church database (work from home).  Joe
> (Exec Dir) can provide more details, but the organization is looking to
> clean up the database and reach out to more churches to participate in FP.
>
> If you are interested in any of these roles please call the Day Center at
> 262-968-2321 or email Joe at director at familypromisewaukesha.org
>
> If you have any questions about helping out during our host week or how
> this is all working, please call me.
>
> Thanks to all!
>
> gina
> 262-424-7640
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