Saint Charles Parish, Imperial Beach, San Diego, CA

Dear Friends of Saint Charles Caritas, Charity on the Border:

I hope your had a blessed weekend!

March 1, 2008, Saturday is Project# 12, buying, transporting and bagging of food for 250 poor families residing at the TJ dump site. We need volunteers in all ages and pick up trucks.

For volunteers who have pick up trucks, please be at St. Charles garage#1 at 8am, and for volunteers who will bag the food, please be at St. Charles at 9:30am.

We need baby food, bars of soap, shampoos, and cookies for the children. In our last distribution of food at TJ dump site, we noticed that there were many pregnant young ladies and many babies. If you could please donate baby food and hygiene products for these babies.

Last Saturday, Feb. 9th was a wonderful day for all the volunteers. These volunteers were the angels of mercy. They worked hard to prepare, cook and serve hundreds of plates of spaghetti/hot-dogs, juices and cake for the orphan children, 2 home for girls and home for the elderly at the Casa de null. The children sung several songs of prayers and thanked and hugged us. We did not expect being hugged by the children. We were all delighted by their appreciations and some of us had teary eyes.

Volunteers were from Oceanside, Escondido, North Park, Coronado, Chula Vista, Imperial Beach & San null: Michael Ross, Margie Benzie & Susan Fields, Mary Wilson, Jack Stroh, April Stewart, Beth Wellner, Belia Ocampo, Marena Vera, Lupe Zamora & Elain Rechs.

I hope to see you next Saturday!

Sincerely yours,

Merlyn Baker
990 Saturn Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92154
tel# (619)428-0199
mbaker2020@aol.com
www.saintcharles.org