2012 APAS “Help the Needy” Project Report

Donation starting date:  Feb 1 ,2012

Package making:   March 31, 2012

Event Chair: Li Li

Advisor: Sun Kim

Goal:  To make 100 care packages.  Packages will be donated to local homeless shelters.

The target donation organization: Covenant House

Mr. H. Earl McNair from Covenant House New Orleans was the contact person who provided the wish list for donation.

There are 27 people from different Asian communities and 3 Asian organizations contributed item or cash to this project

There are total of 951 bathroom items donated, and plus more than 500 items directly donated from store (worth of $189.9).

We also received $485 cash that have used to purchase about 200 big items like diapers and shampoos.

Total of 22 people joined packaging and 9 people delivered the donation packages to Covenant House in downtown New Orleans.

Mr. Eric and Ms. Exedean represented Covenant House, very pleased to receive the 100 packages and other donation items (e.g. 4 boxes of diapers).  She also showed us around in the Covenant House and talked about successful stories of young homeless girls and boys became professionals after got help from Covenant House.

The following is the list of people who had sent donation (Items or cash)

Amy Liu, Chunyan Gu, Cindy Guo, Greg Tokuyama, Guiqin Fan, Irene Wang, Jing Hu, Judy Kim, Kay Weiss and Albert LeMon, Kewen Huang, Lance Harwell, Li Li, Lili Yang, Lina Wen, Liu Xiao Yang, Natalie Gaidry De Angelis, Raihana Islam, Raj Pannu, Sandro Murtas, Stanley Hamidjaja and Inge Hamidjaja, Sun Kim, Teri Mojgani, Teruko Von Bargen, Urvi Shah, Xiaomei Jin,  Rongyi Zhou

The following  organizations donated cash and items:  North American Taiwanese Women's Asso.-Flora Jang, Organization of Chinese American Women (OCAW) and P.A.U.C.L.A.(Philippine American United Council of Louisiana), Evelyn v. Escondo (Philippine Community)

The following young people joined us to pack the 100 bags:

• Anna Huang, Bhindhyaa Dhillon, Byndiyah and Jay (Jessie's kids), Chambormy Kim-Ms Cambodia, Conrad, David Lee,        Emily Huang, Haewon Han, Katie Woo- Ms. APAS, Ping Guo, Roheet Dhillon, Sokhoeun's friend and her little girl, Tom Louk, Urvi's son, Raj, Wilson Chong

There are 11 Adults participated packaging:

Stanley Hamidjaja and Inge Hamidjaja, Sun Kim, Jessie , Vatsana Chanthaia, Urvi Shah, Sokhoeun Chau and friend, Li Li, Kay Weiss and Albert LeMon 

Special thanks for Vatsana Chanthaia who helped purchasing items for the project even when her injury knee not fully recovery.