[4812] in APO News
Service Opportunities - People Making a Difference
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ellen Kranzer)
Mon Jul 24 16:53:50 2000
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:53:16 -0400
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From: Ellen Kranzer <ellen_kranzer@harvard.edu>
If you've got some free time to volunteer this summer, you may want to check
out what People Making A Difference (run by our own mold Lori Tsuruda) is
doing this summer.
Y.I.S.
c.c.
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>Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:35:33 -0400
>From: "Lori Tsuruda" <ltsuruda@imail.ipswitch.com>
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>Subject: [PMD] Friday, 7/28, HARRY POTTER project needs volunteers 6-9 PM
>Sender: pmdlist-owner@imail.ipswitch.com
>
>*ATTENTION HARRY POTTER FANS AND LITERACY SUPPORTERS*
>
>7/28 PMD COMMUNITY SERVICE OPPORTUNITY
>
>WHAT Collate, box, and send braille
> HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE books
>
>WHEN Friday, July 28, 6 to 9 PM
>
>WHERE National Braille Press, Boston (two blocks behind Symphony Hall)
> (Parking is available to the first eight people who sign up to
> participate and request parking.)
>
>WHY The guiding purposes of the National Braille Press
(http://www.nbp.org)
> are to promote the literacy of blind children through braille and to
> enable blind people to better participate in work, family, and civic
> affairs through information. NBP makes available braille publications
> to blind people for the same prices that sighted people pay for print
> publications. The Press urgently needs help collating pages of
volumes
> of the 587 books and packing and sending the volumes so that blind
> readers will receive their Harry Potter books almost as quickly as
> sighted readers did earlier this month. (Ten braille volumes make up
> the complete book!)
>
>HOW Get involved! To participate, you must call 617-437-8871 or send
e-mail
> to <lori@pmd.org> by 7/26. You must give your complete name, email
> address or fax#, and phone#s.
> After you sign-up, PMD will email or fax directions to the project
site
> (by public transportation and by car), what to expect, and a waiver
> form.
>
>WHO People Making a Difference through Community Service (PMD) is
> a nonprofit, volunteer charity that involves and engages people
> through meaningful, hands-on work that meets local needs by
> following a strong service ethic to:
> * Produce appreciable results while conserving recipients' limited
> resources,
> * Educate volunteers about broader issues, and
> * Bring people together to make a difference.
>
>"Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is
not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy
purpose."
>--Helen Keller
>
>
>***Summary of Upcoming PMD Service Opportunities***
>Fri 7/28 Collate, box, and send Harry Potter books for National Braille Press,
> Boston, 6-9 PM, sign up by 7/26
>Sat 8/12 Sort/salvage food for the Greater Boston Food Bank, Roxbury,
8:30-2:30
> sign up by 8/1
>Sat 8/19 Prepare and serve a meal at the Women's Lunch Place, Back Bay,
> 9:30-3:30, sign up by 8/9
>
>People Making a Difference through Community Service (PMD)
>P.O. Box 120189, Boston, MA 02112-0189
>617-437-8871
>http://www.pmd.org
>lori@pmd.org
>
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