EHHF Appreciates Its Supporters in 2013

 EHHF Appreciates Its Supporters in 2013  Uncategorized EHHF's Posts
Dec 092013
 
SOVA Helps EHHF

As the year comes to an end, we’re reflecting on 2013. We think of the many worried single parents with children helped by Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation: we remember the relief in the parents’ eyes and the smiles of kids – after each received a toy, or shoes – who can’t understand life’s struggles, yet.

We think also of individuals and organizations that had the courage, heart and ability to support EHHF’s mission of meeting essentials needs of struggling single parents with children and of educating the parents to help them develop self-sufficiency skills.

Thanksgiving may be over, but the time for giving thanks isn’t. Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation wishes to express heartfelt thanks to its many generous donors, contributors, volunteers and supporters: EACH of you is extra-ordinary! EACH of you is a hero! EACH of you has made a difference! EACH of you played an important role in relieving human suffering and helping build a better future for underprivileged children and empowering single parents, many of whom were giving up hope. THANK YOU!!!

Our very special thanks go to four MAJOR forces for good:

  • L.A. Diaper Drive for providing much needed diapers as incentive for attending self-improvement workshops. Wonderful organization, L.A. Diaper Drive is a generous supporter and a great motivator!
  • Sherwin Williams Paint Store in Glendale for continuing support of EHHF’s fundraising efforts. A great and highly recommended store with a heart of gold focused on the future of America!
  • Kimo’s Appliances for coming through with a donation of a refrigerator when it was so badly needed!

Last but NOT least, Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation thanks SOVA the food bank of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles. Both SOVA and Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles are organizations that not only tirelessly serve the poor in the community, but generously support other charities in fulfilling their missions. SOVA is our hero and a savior!

SOVA Saves EHHF

SOVA, the food bank of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles provided EHHF’s members / beneficiaries with desperately needed food when NO food was available from ANY other source (in November and December 2013!) and for this Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation is exceedingly grateful. EHHF was both, humbled and honored by the generosity and solidarity of SOVA.

As we’re nearing New Year, everyone has wishes for the upcoming 2014. To all EHHF’s allies: may the New Year bless you richly for the goodness you’ve had for fellow human beings in need! As for Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation, our dream continues: EHHF wishes for a facility that would provide housing, meals, child care and employment so no struggling single parent with a child would ever be hopeless!

Happy New Year!

A Bounty of Healthy Foods for Impoverished Single Mother Families

 A Bounty of Healthy Foods for Impoverished Single Mother Families  EHHF Events
Aug 102013
 
August2013EHHFFoodDistribution2

On August the 8th 2013 a group of single mothers with children gathered at the Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation for yet another Shop EHHF Pantry. This time, each family received as much food as they could carry!

The generous donation of healthy food consisted mostly of frozen foods. Were it not for the refrigerator which was recently donated to Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation by Kimo’s Appliances there would have been no way to preserve and store all the precious foods!

Among the items distributed to financially hurting single mother families were all-natural, high fiber frozen waffles and a whole variety of frozen organic fruit.

A Real Bounty of Healthy Foods!

A Real Bounty of Healthy Foods!

Many families have gathered, some participants – especially the youngest ones! – were somewhat impatient.

EHHF Healthy Food For Struggling Single Mother Families

EHHF Provides Healthy Food For Struggling Single Mother Families

The food has been divided and each family present received several boxes of food, so much in fact that some had to resort to using shopping carts to haul the bounty of healthy foods home!

EHHF Provides Healthy Food For Struggling Single Mother Families

  EHHF Provides Healthy Food For Struggling Single Mother Families

The staff and volunteers were busy zooming around: helping to divide food among the attendees, helping to load cars and shopping carts.

EHHF Volunteers In Action
Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation's Volunteers At Work

The mothers were elated; kids, not quite as much. Some were outright bored and becoming cranky. The cure? What else? TOYS!
Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation helped to raise tired children’s spirits by inviting them to choose and take some toys from its charity store.

EHHF Healthy Food Distribution: Joy and Relief

EHHF Supplied Toys To Disadvantaged Chidren of Single Parents
In the end, EVERYBODY was equally delighted: the struggling single moms, the kids, EHHF’s volunteers and Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation’s Founder. Last Thursday may not have radically changed lives, but it certainly lightened the burden of numerous disadvantaged single mothers.

More Food For Poor Single Mother Families Thanks To Kimo’s Appliances

 More Food For Poor Single Mother Families Thanks To Kimo’s Appliances  Uncategorized EHHF's Posts
Jul 292013
 

As those of you who follow Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation’s blog surely know, EHHF – and its members / beneficiaries! – have been desperate for a refrigerator for quite a while now.
Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation has approached many major companies and retailers with requests for a donation of a refrigerator within the last 4 months. Our requests have been ignored by many.

Meanwhile, Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation’s Shop EHHF Pantry program, which helps stretch struggling single parents’ grocery budgets, is expanding and attracts more and more recipients each month. EHHF is very thankful for the support of donors who contribute food to our pantry. However a large portion of the food donations we’re receiving consists of fresh, perishable foods. It is great because they’re healthy for young families and growing children. Unfortunately, in California, without the ability to refrigerate food, a lot of well-meaning fresh food donations were going to waste; that’s why obtaining a refrigerator donation was of utmost importance to us.

Kimo's Appliances

Kimo’s Appliances donated desperately needed refrigerator to help EHHF feed poor single mother families in San Fernando Valley, CA

Today, I’m delighted to announce that thanks to the generosity and compassion of Kimo’s Appliances, Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation has a refrigerator, at last!!!
There won’t be any more wasted food! There’ll be MORE nutritious food available to disadvantaged single parent families and children!

Thanks to the support of Kimo’s Appliances, EHHF will be able to reach more single mother families in need and help put more food on more tables!
It’s a rerigerator, but it’s also a milestone in our growth: Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation extends its sincere thanks to Kimo’s Appliances. You didn’t help some faceless organization but poor single mothers and hungry children to fill their need for nutritious food.

If you – the reader – are not in need but a visitor / prospective donor reading this page, please lend your patronage to Kimo’s Appliances. Kimo’s offers a wide variety of new and used appliances for every budget. Their prices are very competitive and their services include delivery and installation. (They’ll even haul away your old appliances!) Kimo’s Appliances is a solid, local company known for its integrity. With that said, Kimo’s is not only a profit-generating enterprise but an investor into the future of our community.