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Health & Fitness

Furnishings needed for formerly homeless people

From Francesco Papalia:

Dear Albany Friends and Neighbors,

Three new formerly homeless people from the Albany Bulb received keys to an apartment in Oakland near Children’s Hospital with the help from the Berkeley Food and Housing Project and their new Albany Project Hope Case Manager Charles Joseph. They need everything!!!!

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 I am organizing a new Albany Neighbors Helping Neighbors effort to fully furnish their new home.    At this time there are only three occupants:  a single woman and a young couple. The couple is expecting a new baby boy who is due on Mother’s Day.

Like me, you may have extra clean, lightly used furniture and house wares that you would like to see utilized by those in need I hope you will find this as satisfying, as I have, knowing that your donation will go to good use immediately. That someone who didn’t have a real home and bed and a warm place to sleep will have one now that you helped provide.

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Many of you have already helped in the successful furnishing of a two-bedroom apartment in Richmond and the three bedroom apartment in West Oakland

Initial needs assessment:

Bedrooms: one double or queen size bed and metal adjustable box spring frames and one double or single bed.
 Three dressers and bed stands.  Clothes hangers.  I know there are a lot of futon beds out there looking for homes but I would like to find nice firm beds.

Kitchen/dining table. 4 dining chairs.

Bed linens, blanket and bed quilts.

Kitchen: all sizes pots and pans. Plates, eating utensils, glasses, cups, bowls, mixing bowls, cooking utensils, tea kettle
Kitchen appliances: blender, coffee maker, toaster, toaster oven, microwave.
Shelving: Tall or low. Large plastic stacking storage boxes or shelving.
All kinds of cleaning supplies including a broom.

Bathroom: all sizes of towels. Bath mats.  Wall and shower shelves.  

Living room: Couch: Please send me a picture of the couch with measurements since this is a large and heavy items transport I would like to be able to make sure that it is most appropriate for this use. Small side tables, living room chairs. Please send picture.

Lighting: floor and table lamps, extension cords. ALL SIZES.

TV, VCR, DVD player, clock radios. TV stand.

Small ladder or footstool.  Some basic hand tools: hammer, screwdrivers, small drill, saw.

Costco Members: full or partial toilet paper case. If you are purchasing one of those double packs of useful items like cleansers or anything else, please consider donating one for this house. Ideas: aluminum foil, plastic wrap, dish soap, laundry soap.

The Albany Community Foundation will be providing $100 Target gift cards for each client to help them cover personal items. Any cash donations to the Albany Community Foundation earmarked for Project Hope will help pay for those things that are not donated.

Let’s make this a shining example of how we care, not just through our government and social agency efforts, but as neighbors helping neighbors.  All donations are tax deductible as permitted by law.

Please let me know if you will have time on Saturday and Sunday to pick up and deliver donations. If you reply to my email at  francescop@aol.com   please include a telephone contact number.

Thanks

Francesco Papalia   home:510-525-1165    cell: 510-219-1165
809 Key Route Blvd., Albany

 

 





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