The Second Annual Mill Valley Rotary Club Pumpkin Carving Festival, benefitting LifeSupportM.org, was a wonderful event. Thank you to all who donated, volunteered, and participated!
The 2nd Annual Pumpkin Carving Festival to benefit LifeSupportM.org, is Saturday, October 29th, 11am-2pm, at 444 Miller Avenue, Mill Valley. $20 per pumpkin, includes pumpkin carving, tools, & BBQ Lunch. There will be a Bake Sale and Raffle too. Sponsored by the Mill Valley Rotary Club. Look forward to seeing you there! Email LeonaGD@LifeSupportM.org for more information or directions to the festival.
Thank you to all our LifeSupportM.org Mexico Mission Team Members, our families in Mexico, Casa Hogar Sion Orphanage, our Donors, Amor, Camping Pros, Sun Diego Van Rentals, Chevy’s Restaurant in Novato, our Garage Sale Fundraising Volunteers, our COMFY Garden Team, and ALL who helped to create this year’s wonderful Mexico Housebuilding Mission. We built a home for Maria and her family, put a second coat of stucco on for Patricia and Rosa’s family, visited our family from last year, Anna, her children, and her new husband Carlos, and we visited Casa Hogar Sion Orphanage and dropped off a check for $500 that we raised from the Garage Sale in early June. It was a fabulous mission and this truly is “Young People Making Good Things Happen in the World!”
Thank you to all our donors, volunteers, and shoppers for making our LifeSupportM.org Garage Sale & BBQ Hot Dog Fundraiser a smash hit! This was a wonderful community building event along with raising funds for Life Support’s projects: Mexico Mission, Casa Hogar Sion Orphanage, the COMFY Garden, and our Mentorships. The day was beautiful and, the shoppers were plentiful and generous. Thank you to everyone!
In addition to our Garage Sale, we also had our Chevy’s Fundraising Day at Vintage Oak’s in Novato with 25% of meal proceeds donated to LifeSupport when customers dined in or had take out and presented our coupon - Chevy’s, you rock! Thanks everyone for coming out and having a meal to raise funds for LifeSupport.
The Life Support House Building Team heads down to Mexico this coming weekend – we’ll post a message for you upon our return. Leona and Jeff
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On Wednesday, June 1, 2011, the Novato Fire Foundation, and founding sponsor Circle Bank, hosted the Annual Heroes Among Us Luncheon at the Marin Country Club in Novato. A capacity crowd of 120+ community, business and political leaders helped the Novato Fire Foundation recognize everyday people doing extraordinary accomplishments in the community.
Jeff Davidson and Leona George-Davidson of LifeSupportM.org were there to accept the Award for Extraordinary Humanitarian Efforts for their fifteen years of service of Mexico Mission House Building Missions.
“Thank you to the Novato Fire Foundation for this wonderful award. We are humbled to be in the presence of so many others who have selflessly served the community. To our own team members and donors we extend our thanks and gratitude for your years of support – we could not do any of this work without you!” Much love and many blessings, Jeff and Leona
LifeSupportM.org Garage Sale & BBQ Hot Dog Fundraiser
Saturday, June 11
9am-3pm
643 Plum Street, Novato
For Sale:
Household Appliances, Clothing, Kitchenware, Children’s Supplies,
Garden Supplies, BBQ Hot Dogs, Snacks, and Drinks.
All proceeds go toward
LifeSupportM.org Projects:
Mexico House Building Mission
Casa Hogar Sion Orphanage
COMFY Garden
Mentorships
LifeSupportM.org is a sponsored project of MarinLink, a charitable 501(c) (3) non-profit. Fed ID 20-0879422
643 Plum Street ● Novato ● CA ● 94945 ● (415) 271-3629 phone ● LeonaGD@LifeSupportM.org
Over 600 fundraising letters were mailed to our wonderful donors in March for the 2011 LifeSupportM.org Fundraising Campaign. Pumpkin seeds were planted in the COMFY Garden for a fall crop, and in the early morning hours of April 1st Jeff departed for Spring Mexico Mission House Building and to drop off your donations at Casa Hogar Sion Orphanage. Thank you volunteers, donors, and supporters for your efforts to help families in Mexico receive a home, children at the orphanage receive new clothes, and to help young people make good things happen in the world!
February 26, 2011, San Rafael, CA: Leona George-Davidson, Founder/Director of LifeSupportM.org, completes American Red Cross, Bay Area Chapter, First Aid and Disaster Response Training.
“I am excited about becoming involved with the American Red Cross. We do plenty of good work at Life Support; mentoring and helping young people make good things happen in the world through building homes in Mexico, donating to and being friends with the children at Casa Hogar Sion orphanage, and growing an organic garden in Novato, but we’ve also seen a need to be able to respond to emergent events in our local community as well as nationally and internationally. The recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan is just one jarring reminder of our need and desire to be available to help people who are displaced by such terrible circumstances – and we want be of help, and can do so, through the American Red Cross.”
About the American Red Cross: Since its founding in 1881 by visionary leader Clara Barton, the American Red Cross has been the nation’s premier emergency response organization. As part of a worldwide movement that offers neutral humanitarian care to the victims of war, the American Red Cross distinguishes itself by also aiding victims of devastating natural disasters. Over the years, the organization has expanded its services, always with the aim of preventing and relieving suffering.
In addition to domestic disaster relief, the American Red Cross offers compassionate services in five other areas: community services that help the needy; support and comfort for military members and their families; the collection, processing and distribution of lifesaving blood and blood products; educational programs that promote health and safety; and international relief and development programs.
The American Red Cross is where people mobilize to help their neighbors—across the street, across the country, and across the world—in emergencies. Each year, in communities large and small, victims of some 70,000 disasters turn to neighbors familiar and new—the more than half a million volunteers and 35,000 employees of the Red Cross. Through nearly 700 locally supported chapters, more than 15 million people gain the skills they need to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their homes, communities and world.
We at Life Support are grateful that organizations such as the American Red Cross exist to provide ways for anyone who wishes to, to volunteer their time and finances to help others in need. If you wish to donate to the American Red Cross to help the victims of the Earthquake/Tsunami in Japan here is the link to their donation site:
https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?idb=0&5052.donation=form1&df_id=5052.
If you wish to join us in getting trained by the Red Cross or if you wish to donate to Life Support’s projects, let us know by emailing Leona at LeonaGD@LifeSupportM.org As always, we will keep you posted with the progress of all our projects as well as activities in our endeavors with the Red Cross. And, thank you to all our Life Support family, friends, team members, and donors. We are grateful for the many ways we can help people in our local community and all over the world, all of which are made possible and are thriving because of your emotional and financial support – thank you!!
The Life Support COMFY (Community for Youth) Garden received some tender loving care from Alexandra and Leona as a start for the 2011 growing season. We weeded, picked, raked, turned the compost heap, and spruced it all up to get ready for planting in the next few weeks. Thanks so much Alexandra for your help!
Alexandra, by the way, is a filmmaker/documentarian. She is currently working on a documentary about the world phenomenon of Couch Surfing for which she is raising funds to travel around the world to do video interviews of couch surfers on all the continents. Go to: http://kck.st/eGLfYf at KickStarter.com for a preview of Alexandra’s work and to donate toward this worthwhile and inspiring project.
LifeSupportM.org’s 2011 Mexico House Building Mission is slated for June 18-26.
Click here for a Mexico – Application 2011 if you are interested in being on this year’s team.
