Imagine..

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Imagine..

• You just lost your apartment to fire.
• In 2 weeks you have to find an apartment and
  furnish it.
• You have no money.

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Imagine.

• Finally getting an apartment after living in a
  homeless shelter but either you pay the rent or
  the food bill.
• You cannot afford diapers for the baby

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Imagine.

• Being elderly and having no stove to cook on
• No refrigerator for food
• No AC while living with your asthma or heart
  condition

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Everyday in the Merrimack Valley hundreds of
families sleep on floors, even the babies
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There is hopewhen you wish
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We make these simple wishes come true 24,500
people helped last year
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Wish Granted
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Furniture banks make homes
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Beds for 750 Families/yr
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1,000 Babies/yr get complete gear, clothes and
goods
So many babies are born each month into abject
poverty. We supply 50 infant survival kits each
month to get them off to a good start.
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Electronics Bedding
Free small home goods all add up to big savings
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Complete goods for kitchen, bed and bath
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Large Appliances
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Volunteer sorting Area for 1-100 people
9,000 Volunteer Hours per year
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450,000 in value of free new goods through
Monthly Projects
2,500 Spring Bunny Bags of Toys
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Birthday Parties, Christmas Gifts and more

• We gift 500 moms on Mothers day
• Senior Citizens on Valentines day
• 4,000 Kids, parents and mentally challenged at
  Christmas
• 250 battered women for Thanksgiving

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2,500 Backpacks/yr
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Donnas DreamDiapers for all the babies for
Mothers day(March is diaper drive month)
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Not handouts! A hand up

• All clients are referred by caseworkers
• The needs are desperate and basic
• Clients work hard to escape poverty and get
  sustainable again after being
  homeless.
• Our goods allow them to stay housed permanently
• Zero repeat business for furniture

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Cost efficient solution, with a heart

• 1 donated 3.5 value of goods
• Helping the neediest 1st
• Helping locally
• 105 agencies
• All ages
• All abilities
• All nationalities

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For every wish

• There is a couch or lamp in an attic that needs a
  home!

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We give away basic things

• Clothes
• Furniture
• Baby gear, clothes and diapers
• Pots and kitchenware
• Bedding and towels
• Cribs and diapers
• Computers for school
• Cleaning supplies
• Toothpaste and brush
• Lamps
• Electronics TV, AC, Clocks etc.

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Saving the Planet too!

• We think that the best recycling is to put
  hundreds of couches, mattresses and appliances
  back into their original use - in homes.

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From your attic to a needy home one wish at a time
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Faces of Poverty
More than 14 Nationalities of Immigrants
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New warehouse space Jan 06

• New! Wish Furniture Bank
• Furniture for Families
• 8 weeks 58 Apartments
• 64 hours about 1/hour!

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How does it work?

• Case workers email us a wish
• We combine wishes into a weekly e-newsletter to
  1,000 donors
• Donors deliver to us
• Caseworkers pick thing up
• Crisis Wish same day delivery
• Our donors are amazing!

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Faces of Poverty

• More than 2/3 of all wishes are for babies and
  baby goods

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Donors -14 Towns
Groton
Chelmsford
Westford
Pepperell
Acton
Dunstable
Tewksbury
Tyngsboro
Lowell
Burlington
Dracut
Andover
N. Reading
Wilmington
N. Andover
Reading
Burlington
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Faces of Poverty

• The Elderly are a growing group
• Some are grandparents as parents
• Many are needy for the first time

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Faces of Poverty

• More than 1 Million homeless teens in the USA and
  growing rapidly

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Warehouse Space Jan 15 06
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Faces of Poverty

• 90 of wishes involve a child
• 75 are
• for families

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Faces of Poverty

• Teen street homelessness is growing quickly
• More than 40 teen girls in Lowell last count
  many more boys
• Many are couch hopping
• No count available

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A Goods Bank Warehouse

• Efficiency- 400 caseworkers chasing down
  strollers is not efficient
• Just like the food pantries
• Made sense
• Give caseworkers more time for their jobs

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Join the Wish Tree

• Get the weekly email about what things are needed
  urgently every week!
• www.TheWishproject.org

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3,000 new filled backpacks
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Radiant Baby
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750 packs of diapers!
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Volunteers
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Dept. of Corrections
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