Day of Service

On Saturday, October 24th, 2009 the NJSFWC of GFWC held a Day of Service Project parterning with The Heart of America Foundation,.  All three groups of the NJSFWC; Women’s Clubs, Junior Membership/Juniorettes and Evening Membership Departments came together and collected hard cover and paperback books for eight under resourced school districts in New Jersey which were identified by the Heart of America Foundation.  This Foundation is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to help people, particularly children, learn that they help themselves when they help others.  Their goal is to gather new books that are not being used and to get these books into the hands of needy elementary school children and onto the empty shelves of school libraries and classrooms located in areas of poverty.
 
 
NJSFWC members were excited about supporting this project and understood the impact that we can make on the children and schools in these under resourced areas.   Together we were Igniting the Passion to Serve!

 

Donated books sorted by grade at one of the recipient schools

 

 

Students bring the sorted books to the respective classroom libraries.

  

Each book donated had a book plate placed in it that morning.