Hampers
For ages now I have been wanting to do something to help those that need help, and I've been stuck on how to do it. It's hard I've known I wanted to help but I just didn't know how. Anyway I was watching tv the other day and they had this report on a lady in the US who sends hamper's to the troops in Iraq and I thought what an awesome idea. It is something that is really easy to do and I love hampers, I love receiving them, it's like a show bag lol.
So I thought that is it, that is something both Samuel and I can do (he wanted to help too). So we are now researching how we go about doing it. I mean we know how to make the hampers and stuff, but how do we find the people that need them? How do we get in touch with them? Do we advertise and then wait for them to come to us? Or do we just randomly knock on doors?
We decided that the first thing we are going to do is make up a heap of little hampers for Christmas and take them to one of the local nursing homes to give to the elderly. Because the bible says we are to look after the elderly and the needy, so this is what we want to do.
So if any of you want to help or know someone that would really appreciate the special gift for whatever reason, it doesn't mean they have to be poor, they can just have had a really rough patch of being sick, or have just lost their job or just hit hard times for a time being. It doesn't matter, but if you know someone that could use a hamper then let me know so we can organise one.
I was thinking about what the hamper would have in them, and I have some bibles here that are just new testament, some groceries, lollies, toothpaste, shampoo and little things like that. That is to start with and then from there we will judge it and see what happens.