Johanna Kaufman and Donna Aybar with a charity receiving blanket.
Millissa Masters
The PebbleCreek Quilters had donated 30 handmade receiving blankets to West Valley Hospital Partners in Health, who then put together individual take home bags for very needy new mothers at the hospital. In appreciation, Donna Aybar, a PebbleCreek Quilter, representing the Caring Friends RSVP Volunteers, was presented a check for $400 by Johanna Kaufman of West Valley Hospital Partners in Health, a nonprofit division of the hospital.
This check is going to assist in the 2015 Casita Makeover at New Life Center. Caring Friends RSVP (Respectfully Servicing Valuable People) Volunteers is made up of several PC Quilters along with other PC residents and local West Valley groups. They renovate the adopted casita at New Life Center three times a year by providing bedding, bath linens, needed home accessories, cleaning products, toiletries and other items to help these families through this very difficult transition in their life.
New Life Center in Goodyear provides a temporary safe haven for families fleeing domestic violence. Their comprehensive 120-day program empowers families to craft independent lives. In addition to safety, the center provides necessary living needs – food, clothing and bedding – since most residents enter with no belongings. Advocates assist families in working towards achieving both short and long term goals and support is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
When the family leaves the Center they are allowed to take these items with them to their new home. Also, Caring Friends RSVP supplements the daily meals four times a week, Monday through Thursday with vegetables and staples that can help round out their government assisted food allocation.