Watertown Citizens Refugee Support Group is holding a donation drive to benefit Syrian refugees in camps overseas. On selected dates during the month of January, First Parish will be accepting donations of warm clothing, nonperishable food, personal care items, or non-battery operated toys. Please leave your donations just inside the front entrance. These items will be picked up weekly by members of Watertown Citizens Refugee
Support Group, and delivered to NuDay Syria. NuDay Syria will pack, ship and deliver your donations directly to Syrian refugees who are residing in the camps.
DONATION INFORMATION:
Jan. 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 24, 26, 28, 31, from 10:00 am – 12:00 noon.
First Parish Unitarian Universalist, 35 Church St., Watertown. Donations
are to be left in the inside front entrance.
BRING NEW OR LIKE-NEW GOODS ONLY, packed in boxes or placed in
clean, strong plastic bags.
Items needed:
Warm winter clothes, shoes, boots, new underwear and socks, blankets, sleeping bags.
Personal care items such as diapers, soaps, powdered detergent, feminine pads, toothbrushes, toothpaste.
Non-battery operated toys such as stuffed animals, soccer balls, coloring books, crayons.
Nonperishable food items such as canned tuna, rice, cooking oil, sugar, high protein
foods such as peanut butter, energy bars, protein drinks, powdered and liquid milk.
NOTE: All food items must be unexpired and in non-breakable packaging.
We are grateful to First Parish for making this space available.