Serve The City Geneva

Newsletter June

Partage Sorting: With the great results from last weekend’s food collection, we now need volunteers to help sort everything! The sorting will take place on 12,19 and 27 of June. Please let us know if you might be able to help out with this task if you can,

Sorting will take place at Fondation Partage (Espace Tourbillon, Route de la Galaise 19A – 1228 Plan-les-Ouates (Bâtiment D). A Map is found on the STC homepage.

Please sign up on the website for more information.   www.ServeTheCityGeneva.ch

Clair Bois   Wednesday, June 12th Fun End of School Year Event for Clair Blois children from 10h00 to 18h00 (with breaks)    

We have a big end of school year Party planned for the Handicapped kids over at Clair Bois. This is a wonderful time to help entertain the kids (and their care givers). Parents too will be part of the festivities. STC will be hosting by serving the drinks, the food goodies, setup/clean-up. Do come and be a part of this heartwarming event. We want to give the care-givers and staff a much-deserved break!  Complete details of options will be provided to you upon your web signup. Your role would be to help the kids and their families to relax and enjoy the festivities provided by CLAIR BOIS center and their staff. There will be games, a bouncy castle to entertain the children, and Clair Bois and the parents provide food for the families. You would be there to help make them smile!

Point d’Eau / Carrefour Rue: They need your help! Point d’Eau is a free shower and laundry service, another service provided by Carrefour Rue.   We are looking for regular volunteers at the Point d’eau. Once a week is great. It could be during the morning or afternoon, ideally on Mondays or Fridays but other days totally ok too. The Point d’eau is a place to mop the floor of the showers, which can be done in 5 minutes, just to make sure that every person that comes to take a shower arrives at a clean, respectfully place, It is a place where we make the laundry machines turn BUT it is mostly a place to practice French, meet people from diverse horizons in the team that come to shower, do their laundry, generally take care of their personal grooming.We would be ideally belooking for people who might speak another language too, for example, Ukrainien, Arabic, or others.

BioParc  Animal shelter in Belview has a project this Saturday 8 June.

Aubudaby, Soup Kitchen, Salvtion Army, and Refettorio free meals are a few of the other options..

Many thanks... The Serve the City team.

Urgent request for volunteers Saturday 1 June

Many of you may have read in last newsletter about our next big project..(duplicated below)

Samdi du Partage is a large famtastic program to collect good for the needy of Geneva.

It offer help to the marginalized in the community for the next 6 months.

We are very short of volunteers this year and would very much appreciate your help by signing up for the event with your prefered time slot.. Bring your family and friends.. Many thanks for your quick reply.

  The Serve the City team..

May Newsletter

Here we are in May once again, and at the end of the month is one of our communities largest events and we are proud to be part of it!   On Friday 31 May and 1 June, Samedi du Partage enlists over 90 stores to participate in collecting goods for the needy of the area. Serve the City has committed to send volunteers to 8 of these stores and we hope you and your family can be part of this event.  For those not familiar with the program we hand out bags to those entering your store and then another volunteer at the cashier, sorting the contributions.  The 8 different stores have 4 different time slots available for your participation.  Friday at 15h30 or 3 slots on Saturday.  Do signup for a spot early!  And many thanks for your continued participation to help those in need. 

May Newsletter

To all registered Serve the City volunteer, and those on the internet who would like to help those in need.

Here we are in May once again, and at the end of the month is one of our communities largest events and we are proud to be part of it!   On Friday 31 May and 1 June, Samedi du Partage enlists over 90 stores to participate in collecting goods for the needy of the area. Serve the City has committed to send volunteers to 8 of these stores and we hope you and your family can be part of this event.  For those not familiar with the program we hand out bags to those entering your store and then another volunteer at the cashier, sortingthe contributions.  The 8 different stores have 4 different time slots available for your participation.  Friday at 15h30 or 3 slots on Saturday.  Do signup for a spot early!  And many thanks for your continued participation to help those in need. 

The 1 June BioParc activity will be postponed until 8th of  June!

 Other activities like the soup kitchen are still noted on our current activities list.

Many thanks to all.   The Serve the City Geneva team

March STC newsletter

The Serve the City always looking for helpers.. We have one coming up this coming Saturday.

On 23 March – Bioparc animal sanctuary, Bellevue, Geneva needs help to prepare a water system, pathways for wheelchair and a theatre area for children. 9-1pm. Further information will be shared once you register. Thank you.

We are continuing to pack 5,000 food bags a week at the Partage offices in plan-les-Ouates just off the freeway.

Do help those in need preparing these help packages until the end of April. 

Abudaby free clothing center is looking for helpers and Clothes, shoes and accessories for men, women and children. Especially for men. Shoes – mostly sneakers or any kind of comfortable street shoes.  Signup for helping or donations to get more information.

Also other projects can be found with the Salvation Army with a few other opportunities to be of service.

The computer system is now be set up to respond to your signing into your account you automatically will get a 3 year renewal to our newsletter (which you can always cancel).   After 3 years you will have to register once again to get on our mailing list..

Many thanks for your continued support the STC Geneva team..