Volunteers Archives - LSA Family Health Service https://littlesistersfamily.org/tag/volunteers/ Founded by Little Sisters of the Assumption Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:58:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://littlesistersfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-LSA_LOGO_2-1-e1708540584713-1-32x32.png Volunteers Archives - LSA Family Health Service https://littlesistersfamily.org/tag/volunteers/ 32 32 214100612 Back to School & Diaper Drives https://littlesistersfamily.org/back-to-school-diaper-drives/ Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:59:49 +0000 https://littlesistersfamily.org/?p=4558 Kids in our programs got geared up for school with a little help from our friends! Our thanks to school supply and backpack donors: The Brooke Jackman Foundation Church Pension Group Disney Emerson Reid/USI Insperity Morgan Stanley St. Francis de Sales St. Monica’s Special thanks to Morgan Stanley! Morgan Stanley held drives to donate school […]

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Our thanks to school supply and backpack donors:

The Brooke Jackman Foundation
Church Pension Group
Disney
Emerson Reid/USI
Insperity
Morgan Stanley
St. Francis de Sales
St. Monica’s

Special thanks to Morgan Stanley!

Morgan Stanley held drives to donate school supplies,  snacks for our children’s programs, and diapers and wipes for families with babies and toddlers.  In addition, some representatives from the company joined us to help distribute diapers.  These supplies are a tremendous help for our families.

THANK YOU!!

Students pickup backpacks and supplies, getting ready to go back to school
Backpacks from the Brooke Jackman Foundation
Diaper giveaway
(above and below) Parents picked up diapers, distributed by friends from Morgan Stanley.

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]]> 4558 Thank You to Summer Volunteers! https://littlesistersfamily.org/thank-you-to-summer-service-volunteers/ Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:38:00 +0000 https://littlesistersfamily.org/?p=4264 We couldn’t do it without you! We’re so lucky to have wonderful volunteers who joined us this summer:  students, corporate groups, and others who chose to give their time in service to our community.  We thank the many volunteers who have made a difference, with special thanks to groups from JP Morgan and USI for […]

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student volunteers
Student volunteers in our food pantry

We’re so lucky to have wonderful volunteers who joined us this summer:  students, corporate groups, and others who chose to give their time in service to our community.  We thank the many volunteers who have made a difference, with special thanks to groups from JP Morgan and USI for their service!

All About Pandas

“The kids are all pleasant, fun and engaging. It’s clear that the program is adding value.” —Gary K.

A group of volunteers from JP Morgan joined students in our summer program for an afternoon of activities all about giant pandas. Together, children and volunteers learned panda facts, made their own paper pandas and even found a name for the new class mascot–“Pamboo.”

JP Morgan
JP Morgan volunteers joined children in our summer program.
JP Morgan Volunteers
Volunteers helped children record “panda facts.”

#USIGivesBack

Employees from Emerson Reid/USI volunteered in our food pantry and thrift store in a company-wide service campaign. They helped with our weekly pantry distribution, assisting visitors to the pantry in selecting foods for their families. And they helped sort donations of clothing, preparing them for the Sharing Place thrift store, sales from which help support our other programs.

“I had a wonderful time helping in the food pantry!  I loved interacting with clients and even using a little bit of Spanish that I leanred in high school.  I am glad to have helped them smile and receive any resources they needed.”  —Danielle C.

USI volunteers
Volunteers from USI helped out in our food pantry.
USI volunteers
USI volunteers also helped sorting clothing in our thrift store.

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]]> 4264 Volunteer Appreciation Evening https://littlesistersfamily.org/volunteer-appreciation-evening/ Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:36:47 +0000 http://littlesistersfamily.org/?p=4031 LSA celebrated the many contributions of its volunteers at a special celebration in their honor. Volunteers enjoyed dinner and had an opportunity to share their experiences with others. To see photos from the event, click the right arrow, below. We offer thanks to the volunteers who help our programs in so many ways!

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]]> LSA celebrated the many contributions of its volunteers at a special celebration in their honor. Volunteers enjoyed dinner and had an opportunity to share their experiences with others.

To see photos from the event, click the right arrow, below.
Volunteer Appreciation Evening 2018

We offer thanks to the volunteers who help our programs in so many ways!
2018 Volunteer Appreciation Evening

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]]> 4031 Monte Sinai Students Volunteer https://littlesistersfamily.org/monte-sinai-students-volunteer/ Fri, 01 Jul 2016 15:41:08 +0000 http://littlesistersfamily.org/?p=2131 June 8, 2016 — Thirty high school students from the Monte Sinai High School near Mexico City, Mexico, came to LSA to learn about our work and to participate in activities with children in LSA programs. They toured the building and had a Q&A session with LSA Advocate, Pura Cruz. The students brought art supplies and snacks with […]

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]]> June 8, 2016 — Thirty high school students from the Monte Sinai High School near Mexico City, Mexico, came to LSA to learn about our work and to participate in activities with children in LSA programs. They toured the building and had a Q&A session with LSA Advocate, Pura Cruz.

The students brought art supplies and snacks with them and played games with the children.

The activity had a great impact on the high school students. One of the facilitators from the high school wrote:

It was an honor visiting you and having an activity with the kids.

Most of our high school students come from migrant families that arrived to Mexico in WWII.  They had never before thought about what it must have been like for their grandparents to have to move to another country, and most of all they did not understand the issues of poverty and immigration and were not aware how often it still happens today. It was definitely an eye opening experience for our students to learn about the struggles of Mexican immigrants in the United States.

The conclusions they gave at the end of the trip about Little Sisters and what they learned here were amazing. They said that they just learned about an entire different  reality of the  USA, NY and the world in general that they were not aware of previously.

They learned that sometimes just by playing with someone you can give so much.

At the end of the activity, the students very generously donated from their own pockets, and the total amount was $354.

We look forward to having students from Monte Sinai visit LSA again next summer!

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