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Community Service
2008 Aids Walk
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December 2006
About The Women Shelter of Long Beach (WSLB):
The Women Shelter of Long Beach
(WSLB) is a non-profit organization that
provides comprehensive support and services to victims
and survivors of
domestic violence. We operate the only emergency shelter for battered
women and their children in Long Beach, our Domestic Violence Resource
Center offers
individual and group counseling to over 500 non-residential
clients per year. Together with Long Beach Police
Department, WSLB
makes up the Domestic Abuse Response Team (D.A.R.T.) which responds
to
911 calls involving DV. All of our clients have access to counseling, Cal
Works assistance, legal advocacy,
court accompaniment, medical
assistance, referrals and much more at no charge.
Past
Events:
The
16th Annual Los Angeles County
5K Heart Walk
at
Exposition Park
Saturday, September 30, 2006
To get
more information about the American Heart Walk, CLICK HERE!
Charles Drew Medical Center: June
2005 and May 2006
Mochas
meet with the new mothers in the maternity ward. We presented
them with gift bags and answered their questions
about the expectations of
being a mother and how to care for their baby. We then visited the pediatric
ward where we spent time with the children and gave them gift bags to make
their stay a bit more comfortable.
Project
Angel Foods: April 10,2005
Mocha
Moms earned their wings by volunteering in the kitchen. We helped
the cooking staff prepare meals.
Their Mission
Project
Angel Foods mission is to nourish the body and sirit of men, women
and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious
illness.
Project Angel Food delivers free nutritious meals prepared with love. We act
out of a sense of urgency
because hunger and illness cannot wait.
For more information go to http://www.angelfood.org
Gardening and Fun,
The Belmar Child and Family Center April 24,2004
The Center is a child guidance clinic that provides, among other forms
of
therapy, horticulture therapy. The Center and Daniel Webster Middle School
share the Garden. On this
very sunny and hot day Mocha's and their children
gave it their all to help with the pulling up of old weeds and
dead flowers.
Afterwards the group plantted new seeds for flowers as well as vegetable.
At the end of the
day the Mocha children had a chance to pick fresh
vegetables to take home from the garden.
Windsor Hills Convalescent Hospital December
12,2003
Mocha's
and their children went out in Grand style all dressed for the
Holiday season to add a little sunshine to those that
are in convealescent
homes. The moms and their children gave the gift of song by lifting up their
voices.
After the songs they were able fellowship with the residents.
Turning Points Transitional Housing Shelter September 19,2003
Both Mocha's and their children bagan with
a tour of the facility and a brief
orientation to the Turning Points program. They then concluded the tour by
preparing sack lunches from food that THEY donated for the shelter's 55
residents.
Food in the Hood with Crenshaw High Scool
L.A, June 2002
One
of the neighborhoods hit hardest by the Los Angeles riots of 1992,
students found a way to revive their community
in their own backyard.
Planting New Hope
Garden Food From The 'Hood was created to help students convert a
weed-infested, quarter-acre of dirt behind Crenshaw High School into a
garden.
From the beginning,
students donated most of the produce to shelters or to
people who didn't have any money to buy fresh vegetables.
Now a thriving
student-owned business, Food From The 'Hood still donates its harvest to
the needy. To date,
the program has awarded nearly $200,000 in scholarships
to 77 of its graduates.
Mocha's joined in with the
students to help cultivate their garden as well as
host a Bar B-Q with the students.
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