Moms with an Agenda

Christmas time isn’t easy for families who are displaced. Most places offer food and gifts for children but often times there are other needs a family has that aren’t covered. Additionally teens and other family members often don’t have gifts for them at gift drives. For this holiday season we are raising money for gift cards for displaced families at Raphael House. There are two ways you can help:
1. Make a donation of any amount (see comments for how to do that).
2. Buy a limited edition giclee print of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by me, Jhina Alvarado. Each print is 11”x14” and signed and numbered for $75. 100% of proceeds will go to buying gift cards. Please see comments for a link on how to buy one.

We are handing out gift cards on the 18th so please have donations and orders in by the 17th.

Here are some pics of our awesome volunteers passing out whistles to our Asian community!

Jhina Alvarado-Morse was on the news spreading the word!

https://fb.watch/4uGA2dlrSt/

Please share the LinkTree to share the video, ways to donate money, donate time or order whistles directly for volunteers to assemble!

https://linktr.ee/quandenise

When We Come Together Linktree. Make your link do more.

With all the worry for your Asian American elders, Jhina Alvarado-Morse came up with another amazing and thoughtful idea: to provide whistles with breakaway chains (avoiding strangulation issues) to hand out to senior citizens. If you would like to help order whistles, assemble bags or distribute please let us know!

Each whistle will have a safe chain, a bag and a note in translated in several languages explaining the purpose of these items.

Thank you in advance!

Thanks everyone - your contributions have contributed to the back to school supplies for 300 kids! Distributions this morning and tomorrow morning! Thank you to the Moms that came out on Saturday and Sunday nights to help pack bags for the kids!!!!!!

ETA: We are distributing at Mission HS on Tuesday NOT Cesar Chavez ES. Sorry for the mistake!

We will be distributing supplies on Monday at the Bayview Opera House starting at 9am until we run out and on Tuesday at Mission HS starting at 9am until we run out. we will only have 150 bags (25 in each age group) at each location so show up early if you need supplies. Thank you to Recess Collective for putting together our Pre-k bags, Fly Little Dragon for providing 90 pages of pre-k worksheets and Fourth Street Press for donating all the printing for these booklets. Below is a description of what each bag contains although there will be a little variety in each bag depending on what was donated and the amount we received.

The pre-k bag was put together by Recess Collective and has play-doh, rolling pin with craft sticks, wooden peg person with pipe cleaners, crayons, sidewalk chalk, and a 90 pages of activity worksheets provided by Fly Little Dragon (printing donated by Fourth Street Press) and 3 books to read.

Kindergarten bag will contain a pencil case with thick pencils, eraser, glue stick, sharpener, and scissors. A container of math manipulatives contains counters, pattern blocks, interlocking cubes and dice. There’s play doh, watercolors, crayons, construction paper, site word cards, white board with markers and eraser, plus books to read.

1st/2nd grade will contain a pencil bag filled with pencils, eraser, sharpener, glue stick, and scissors. There’s a container of math manipulatives that include tiles, counters, dice and pattern blocks. There will also be play doh, watercolors, art pad, crayons, markers, whiteboard with erasers and markers plus books to read.

3rd-5th will contain a pencil bag filled with pencils, eraser, sharpener, glue stick, deck of cards and scissors. Then there’s a container of math manipulatives that include tiles, pattern blocks, counters and dice. Additionally there’s a composition book, markers, colored pencils, water colors, a Highlights activity book, multiplication flash cards, white board with markers and erasers, books to read and rulers.

6th-8th grade bags have pencil bags filled with pencils, eraser, sharpener, scissors, glue stick, post it’s, and high lighters. There will be a white board with markers and eraser, regular markers, colored pencils, composition book, notebook, integer number line, colored pencils, ruler, compass, protractor, Dice, playing cards and scientific calculator.

High school bag will contain pencil bags filled with pencils, eraser, sharpener, scissors, glue stick, post it’s, notecards and high lighters. There will be binders, graph paper, single subject notebooks, scientific calculator, compass, colored pencils and protractor. There are some random things like hole punchers, dividers, folders etc added in these bags.

This is what the kindergarten bags look like. Not pictured is the construction paper and the books we added in. These individual bags are heavy!

Can't believe school starts in less than 2 weeks!

We are looking for volunteers to help with organizing the school supply bags and distribution! Below is some information about what this entails! Please email [email protected] or text 619-788-8555 if you are able to help!

1. Putting bags together-
2 shifts in an open garage in the Sunset with volunteers masked, gloves available and everyone socially distant. 2 hours each session and 2 volunteers needed per session.

Saturday August 8th from 6-8pm
Tuesday August 11th from 6-8pm

2. Distribution-
Will have 2 tables set up at 2 parks in Hunters Point area and we are looking for 2 people at each location to watch the tables and wait for people to come pick up the supplies. Will provide tables and bags and volunteers can be masked and socially distant.

Friday August 14th from 10-1pm.

We realize every family has different levels of comfort and appreciate your support only if you are comfortable with doing so.

Denise and Jhina

Hi friends! We are doing so well with the school supplies coming in! If you haven’t had a chance to order anything - think about it this way:
For $18 you can supply 9 kids with dry erase markers and for less than $40 you can supply 25 kids with dry erase boards!!!!

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Hello friends and supporters! With Math being so important to our kids futures and basic skills- we'd love to try this week to ensure that we get 100 graphing calculators for our high schoolers! It's tough to pass an advanced high school math class without this! The ones we have on our Amazon Wish List are $99.99 and will cover the kids throughout high school and even into college.

If you are able to share this with friends that maybe can pitch in- it is greatly appreciated! And if you know if a similar function calculator elsewhere you would like to buy that works too, you can PM us for shipping information.

And lastly, if you can't do a calculator, whatever you are able to purchase, it all helps. A pack of notecards is less than $10 and we still need a ton of these too!

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/22SIFLWQ98MA4?ref_=wl_share

Thank you!
Jhina Alvarado-Morse and Denise Bethel

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