PROJECT BACKPACK is the next logical step to project blanket. This project involves collecting backpacks and other carry along bags, small necessities like a toothbrush, toothpaste, deoderant, and so forth, and then giving them to the homeless friends we meet along the way.
This project, like project blanket, is all about your personal involvement, so please remember these simple steps:
1) go out and make a friend with someone who is homeless and needs something like this,
2) gather your supplies
3) deliver your goods
4) talk about it here, tell us your story.
RCOV is based on the notion that we as individuals have the compassion needed to make a difference in someone's life, then, if we work together, there's no limit to how many people we can help.
PROJECT BLANKET UPDATE: One gentleman we met at a library hased recieved 1 blanket, some sweaters, a backpack, and some food in mason jars.
We have a few more blankets available at the moment as well as a couple of packs filled with all sorts of necessities so if you know of anyone who needs them, please post here in the comment section
Senior Christmas Extravaganza!!!
RCOV is helping a wonderful woman put together a Christmas Holiday for a group of Seniors in a local jacksonville community.
This is what we need:
1. Gifts
A. Unwrapped, small trinkets that could be useful or just nice for someone. Brush kits, shampoo sets, coffee mugs, any little item is acceptible. Those items, once delivered will be wrapped and given to the person it seems most suitable for
2. Food
A. The party needs catering and so we need anything good for a party like items for a pickle dish or stuff for a cheese dish, maybe even a main entre' or three
3. Money
A. whatever good you don't have to give any money for us to find these items is welcome and appreciated.
To donate please contact us at rivercityoutreach@gmail.com and we will work out the details. Thank you very much, we look forward to providing a good Holiday for people who at times feel unloved and forgotten.
This is what we need:
1. Gifts
A. Unwrapped, small trinkets that could be useful or just nice for someone. Brush kits, shampoo sets, coffee mugs, any little item is acceptible. Those items, once delivered will be wrapped and given to the person it seems most suitable for
2. Food
A. The party needs catering and so we need anything good for a party like items for a pickle dish or stuff for a cheese dish, maybe even a main entre' or three
3. Money
A. whatever good you don't have to give any money for us to find these items is welcome and appreciated.
To donate please contact us at rivercityoutreach@gmail.com and we will work out the details. Thank you very much, we look forward to providing a good Holiday for people who at times feel unloved and forgotten.
RCOV for the Homeless- Project Blanket
i don't know if any of you have ever slept outside during the winter season in Jacksonville, but i can guarantee you that it's absolutely miserable. The worst times to feel hopeless, unwanted, and abandoned by society comes when you are laying on the grass or hard concrete and your shivering uncontrolably.
Project Blanket is where we will collect as many blankets as possible to give to those who have to try and sleep through this.
There are two functions to Project Blanket:
1. Find Blankets!!!
- any blankets will do, but they have to be clean. Keep the Blankets at your house until they are needed. -
2. Find people who need a blanket.
-this means finding homeless people and making friends. If you meet someone once and find out they need a blanket, and you have one available, please feel free to give it to them.-
As long as we stay in contact with eachother then we can share information and make this very effective.
Please don't post anyone's name or location that you find on the blog without their express permission; HOWEVER, if you have made a friend and want to tell the story, please leave a comment under this post.
If you have any helpful ideas or information or questions, please comment under the post or send an e-mail to rivercityoutreach@gmail.com
Thank you all, and Good Luck!
Mike Green
Project Blanket is where we will collect as many blankets as possible to give to those who have to try and sleep through this.
There are two functions to Project Blanket:
1. Find Blankets!!!
- any blankets will do, but they have to be clean. Keep the Blankets at your house until they are needed. -
2. Find people who need a blanket.
-this means finding homeless people and making friends. If you meet someone once and find out they need a blanket, and you have one available, please feel free to give it to them.-
As long as we stay in contact with eachother then we can share information and make this very effective.
Please don't post anyone's name or location that you find on the blog without their express permission; HOWEVER, if you have made a friend and want to tell the story, please leave a comment under this post.
If you have any helpful ideas or information or questions, please comment under the post or send an e-mail to rivercityoutreach@gmail.com
Thank you all, and Good Luck!
Mike Green
R.C.O.V. for the Homeless!
Not all of us are fortunate in life, some of us are the victims of others greed as well as victims of ourselves. Regardless of our fate, sometimes we loose it all and become homeless, wanderers, vagabonds, broke and down on our luck. Those that go homeless, don't choose to suffer, and don't deserve to suffer.
Our society has hard feelings against the homeless; calling them underachievers, bums, hobos, lazy, or mentally ill...
Because a person isn't like everyone else, doesn't give us the opportunity to judge them, or deny them help. So R.C.O.V. for the Homeless, contributes to them useful help:
-Go to shelters and soup kitchens and volunteer your time
-Gather supplies for the Homeless (i.e. - food, clothing, survival supplies, backpacks and bags)
-Convince them to shelters and other locations for food and help
-Just comfort and talk to them... (Everyone needs a friend)
Our society has hard feelings against the homeless; calling them underachievers, bums, hobos, lazy, or mentally ill...
Because a person isn't like everyone else, doesn't give us the opportunity to judge them, or deny them help. So R.C.O.V. for the Homeless, contributes to them useful help:
-Go to shelters and soup kitchens and volunteer your time
-Gather supplies for the Homeless (i.e. - food, clothing, survival supplies, backpacks and bags)
-Convince them to shelters and other locations for food and help
-Just comfort and talk to them... (Everyone needs a friend)
R.C.O.V. for the Sick!
Most the time children and adults are in the hospital, it's never a memorable experience. The worst part of being sick is staying sick, and as long as were unhappy we never have the energy to get better. Most children in hospitals aren't playing, aren't associating with anyone, and aren't feeling wanted...
R.C.O.V. for the Sick; has the ability to make those people and children happy:
-Pray;
-Play;
-Promise to come back...
Just a little bit of time with a sick person can help them get better
R.C.O.V. for the Sick; has the ability to make those people and children happy:
-Pray;
-Play;
-Promise to come back...
Just a little bit of time with a sick person can help them get better
R.C.O.V. for the Elderly!
If your reading this you have something in common with everyone...
You have either parents or grandparents, or in some cases someone who cared for you when you were in your youth.
Unfortunately most people in retirement homes are forgotten and sitting around with no one to associate with. We owe it to our elders to comfort them and make their day happier.
So, R.C.O.V. needs compassionate people to:
-Spend time at a Nursing Home; make some friends
-Run errands for them (i.e. - grocery shopping, helping with their yard work, home repairs)
-Spend time with them! It truly makes a difference.
You have either parents or grandparents, or in some cases someone who cared for you when you were in your youth.
Unfortunately most people in retirement homes are forgotten and sitting around with no one to associate with. We owe it to our elders to comfort them and make their day happier.
So, R.C.O.V. needs compassionate people to:
-Spend time at a Nursing Home; make some friends
-Run errands for them (i.e. - grocery shopping, helping with their yard work, home repairs)
-Spend time with them! It truly makes a difference.
R.C.O.V. for the Environment!
This particular section of R.C.O.V. has to do with the problems that involve our entire community,
The Environment!
In Jacksonville, we all live upon and with the St. John's river, helping to keep it clean is vital to the health of everyone here.
R.C.O.V. for the Environment, has these responsibilities...
-commune to clean up solid waste materials at the water level
(i.e. plastic bottles, foam cups, beer bottles, cardboard, paper waste)
-work with The St. John's Riverkeeper on projects that really make a difference
-locate and report major pollution contributors
-help and protect wildlife that is being harmed or endangered
The Environment!
In Jacksonville, we all live upon and with the St. John's river, helping to keep it clean is vital to the health of everyone here.
R.C.O.V. for the Environment, has these responsibilities...
-commune to clean up solid waste materials at the water level
(i.e. plastic bottles, foam cups, beer bottles, cardboard, paper waste)
-work with The St. John's Riverkeeper on projects that really make a difference
-locate and report major pollution contributors
-help and protect wildlife that is being harmed or endangered
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