Give Back Event

After ten years of supporting the Red Cross, the AAGW was interested in doing more.  We wanted to provide our members with a hands-on experience to help our community neighbors. We encouraged apartment communities and suppliers to host a drive for personal items that we could include in a bag for clients of the Open Door.  Then, at a December Membership Meeting, our members assembled bags that included personal grooming and hygiene items as well as some small toys, books and snacks for kids.  A supplier member offered a delivery truck to transport over 100 bags and about a dozen members stayed at Open Door to help distribute bags when clients came in to pick up a box of food for the holidays.
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The event was such a success that we decided to dedicate a late fall meeting each year to be our annual Give Back Event to benefit such organizations as the Center of Hope, Wichita Children's Home and Kansas Food Bank.