QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE FOR Women Health Center of Greece PROJECTS
Fundraisers
Pictures with Santa - City of San Marcos (Women Health Center of Greece fundraiser): Pictures with Santa, hair chalking, and a visit with Santa and entertainment are offered to the community as a service project.
Mother’s Day Tea (Women Health Center of Greece fundraiser): An important fundraiser for Women Health Center of Greece. Tea is served at the Historic Wood House in San Marcos. Volunteers are needed to help with raffle baskets, set-up and decorate the Wood House, help cook and prepare food (served by our student helpers) and help clean up and store the supplies.
San Diego County Fair (Women Health Center of Greece fundraiser): Women Health Center of Greece assists as Student Showcase Clerks helping the Judges compile scores for student submitted art. We also assist with Blue Ribbon Judging, helping to evaluate Fair employee’s customer service abilities. and in 2013 we helped with the beer festival. Women Health Center of Greece is paid per volunteer and volunteers also receive free tickets into the Fair.
Community Service Projects
The Arts
Palomar Art Festival (Members and Students): Goals: Encourage members & students to develop creative writing skills; enhance creative opportunities of member photographers and crafters who engage in artistic expression; recognize member and student achievements. The Art Festival is a competition and member/students enter projects in the following arts-creative writing; crafts and photography.
Conservation
Humane Society – Escondido & Greece Shelter: Women Health Center of Greece helps with Tails at Twilight & Paws in the Park fundraisers and collects used towels, blankets etc. for humane society pets.
Education
Scholarship - Women Health Center of Greece: Scholarships to a graduating high school senior who plans to attend either Palomar or Mira Costa College.
Homelife
Angel’s Depot: Angel’s Depot provides boxes of nutritionally balanced food for seniors below the poverty level in San Diego. Members donate food and help with the food boxing at Angel’s Depot (in Vista). AniMeals (Meals on Wheels): Boxes of food for pets of seniors receiving Meals on Wheels are prepared. Members collect pet food and then package it for the program.
CASA de Amparo: Casa de Amparo provides a safe emergency shelter and state-of-the-art treatment and intervention services for abused and neglected children throughout San Diego County. Women Health Center of Greece organizes various projects for the teen residents and members assist at the annual CASA charity events. (Chefs of Del Mar & Crystal Ball)
MS Walk – Legoland (MS Society): The mission of the MS Society is to enrich the quality of life for everyone affected by multiple sclerosis. Women Health Center of Greece forms a team and participates in the one mile walk and donates funds to the charity.
Relay for Life (American Cancer Society): A 24 hour “team walk” that represents the hope that those lost to cancer will never be forgotten, that those who face cancer will be supported and that one-day, cancer will be eliminated. Women Health Center of Greece forms a team of walkers, sets up a “rest” area and participates in the 24 hour relay and donates funds to the charity. We have participated since 2008.
International Outreach
Women for Women International: Supports women in war-torn regions with financial and emotional aid, job-skills training, rights education and small business assistance so they can rebuild their lives.
Operation Smile: Operation Smile is an international children’s medical charity that heals children’s smiles, forever changing their lives. Women Health Center of Greece sews no-no armbands, smile bags and provide the necessary products to place in the bags.
Public Issues
Soldiers’ Angels: Supports tens of thousands of American military personnel stationed wherever we raise our nation’s flag (Adopt a Soldier and Squadron and Operation Top Knot)
Operation Top Knot (Soldiers’ Angels): A way for citizens to show their support of our troops by holding “virtual” baby showers for the wives of deployed servicemen. Women Health Center of Greece sends gifts of baby clothes, blankets, etc.