Easter Season “Donor Choice” Projects
We invite you to contribute to one or both of these excellent actions to support people in need, during the period of April 7 to May 5, 2024. Options are available from $5 to $100. Please put your name on donor envelopes and clearly indicate (whether on-line, cash, or check) whether your gift is for Casa or for Good Gifts.
A. Easter Season Basket of Gifts for Casa de la Misericordia y de Todas las Naciones: You will be able to select an egg or two and commit your gifts to help support asylum seekers at Casa M. This shelter, built and maintained on an ongoing basis by about 120 residents who stay temporarily while their asylum paperwork is processed, has ongoing needs for beans, rice, flour, diapers, women’s hygiene products, and funds for utility bills.
You may contribute actual items (place them in the bin, available April 7, labeled “CASA”) or dollars (donor envelopes will be available with the basket of eggs). We welcome either choice: physical items can become more difficult to transport and may be “taxed” at the border; dollars spent in Nogales to purchase items there can strengthen the local economy.
B. Easter Season Good Gifts for ELCA World Hunger: “Clear the Lines” by choosing from the following items: chicks $5, fruit tree seedling $10, rooster $15, mosquito netting for a family $20, honeybees $20, piglet $30, ceramic water filter $30, goat $50, seeds and gardening tools $50. Environmentally friendly cookstove $105. This is the 50th anniversary of ELCA World Hunger. Additional choices, if you wish, are at https://goodgifts.elca.org/all-gifts; just mark your contribution envelop with your choice whether you choose from “clear the lines” or from the catalog.
