Mitzvah Day 2010 is Sunday, May 16 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Help plan the day, be a team captain or just find out more about it!  
Contact Lori Lander:    This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or  617-492-1469

Would you be a team captain? Would you help mail birthday and get well cards after Mitzvah Day? Would you help deliver Welcome Baskets to refugee families?  Would you be a photographer on Mitzvah Day?

• Gently used children’s clothing (infant to size 14/16), baby equipment to be sorted and donated to Cradles to Crayons
• Travel size toiletries, new white socks and hair ties, playing cards for homeless teens at Bridge over Troubled Waters
• Gently used kitchenware and linens (including utensils, pots and pans, cups, plates, napkins, placemats) for newly arriving refugee families
• Crayons, pipe cleaners, stickers for Emergency Room Activity Kits
• Books! Gently used or new books of all kinds for literacy and ESL programs and More Than Words Bookstore (run by at risk teens) 
  For the ESL high school program we particularly need 3^rd-4^th grade books like Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, The Most Beautiful Place in the World, Sarah: Plain and Tall, Because of Winn Dixie, Grade three-four biographies.
• Birthday Party Supplies for birthdays in a bag for homeless and low income children (plates, cups, napkins, streamers, cake mix, frosting, candles)