Our Annual Food and Toy Drive is underway!
Each first period classroom is asked to “adopt” one family from St. Vincent Day Home in in West Oakland. SVDH offers day-care/pre-school/kindergarten programs that serve and support working families with economic challenges.
To “adopt” a family means each class (approx. 25 students) will collect/donate 2 boxes of non-perishable food items and at least 1 gift for each member of the family, parents included.
O’Dowd students may have already talked with their parents about items they are collecting. Each class decides who will bring in which items. A suggested list is below, but items vary by class and family needs.
We need all items to be brought to Period 1 homerooms by next Tuesday morning, Dec. 6. Delivery to SVDH will be on Wednesday morning, Dec. 7.
A huge THANK YOU to the whole O’Dowd community for all the ways you have offered support.
NOTE: We ask that food NOT be perishable and it is a request of St. Vincent Day Home that no toys be violence oriented (i.e. no guns, no knives, no fighting “action figures”) Thank you!
SUGGESTED FOOD LIST (NOTE – No perishable foods)
Canned Fruit
Canned Veggies
Canned Soups & Crackers
Cereals
Coffee / Tea
Sugar
Flour
Rice
Pinto beans (dry)
Peanut Butter & Jelly
Canned meats
Tuna – canned
Vegetable oil
Treats: fruit snacks, cookies, cocoa
POSSIBLE HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES:
Toothbrushes & Toothpaste
Soap & Shampoo
Cleaning sponges
Lotions or skin cream
Band Aids, first aid
POSSIBLE (GENERAL) Kid’s items (if there are no specifics from the family info)
Children’s Books
Fun stickers
Coloring books, Paper
Pens, Pencils, Erasers
Chalk, Crayons,
Water color markers
Dolls, balls, stuffed animals
Games or puzzles
“The annual Food and Toy Drive kicked off yesterday, and runs through Tuesday, December 6. The drive serves families from Saint Vincent’s Day Home, a non-profit with more than a century of service to children of low-income families.
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