Volunteer Days At Little House

3 Days, 4 Opportunities to help Little House.


Just a reminder to you. We have 3 Saturdays of volunteer opportunity. President Barak Obama has asked us to observe the anniversary of 9/11 with days of service. 

A donation in any amount to help defray costs of materials would also be welcome. Checks made to Karen House with a memo to Little House can be sent to 1538-A N 17th Street, Saint Louis, MO 63106

I posted a few days back, an article From Little House.
http://innostrumviadomus.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-little-house.html Now a Volunteer opportunity is available to you at Little House. If you can join us, please do. Please spread the word. Here is the letter and invitation:

We, at Little House, will be in the process of prepping an apartment for a new resident at Little House. In conjunction with the work going on downstairs, some repairs to our unit will be made to the plumbing and flooring and stairs. Sometime over the past few years, the shower had been leaking undetected into the floor and ceiling below and rotting portions of the floor. To repair the bathroom shower and floor, the ceiling under the floor will need be removed in order to access the plumbing. As long as the first floor unit is vacant we will also take some time to fix our stairs, which have become wobbly, by removing the ceiling under them and making the needed repairs. We will be patching, painting, sanding floors, fixing doors and windows and generally trying to accomplish other deferred maintenance tasks while the unit is unoccupied.

In order to get all of this work done in a timely manner, we have arranged three volunteer workdays in September. Saturdays in September, from nine in the morning until one in the afternoon we will be working with our Downtown Teens followed by a cookout/picnic. In addition, I will be working most weekdays as my schedule permits. You are welcome to join me on those days as well. Just let me know when you are available.

• We need volunteer workers.

o We have projects for all skill levels from caulking, patching and painting to tuck-pointing, carpentry and drywall hanging and finishing.

• We need financial donations (about $10,000) to cover the cost of fixtures, materials and labor—Teens and sub-contractors.

• We could also use two refrigerators, a microwave and a gas stove.

• In addition, we need meals for volunteers and Teens each Saturday (or donations to purchase meal items).

If you can help Little House, please let me know by responding to this post, email me or RSVP on Facebook.

Thanks,
Mike Baldwin
Official Invitation below:

Please come join Mike and Teka and the Downtown Teens

for any or all of our volunteer work days at Little House.

Saturdays September 12, 19, 26 from

9a.m. until 1 p.m. followed by lunch in the back yard.

Projects include but are not limited to:

gardening, wall and ceiling repairs, plumbing,

painting, construction, reconstruction, tuck-pointing,

basement clean-out, tree planting and winterizing.

All skill levels welcome, donations for materials gratefully accepted.

Check the facebook invitation http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=265129990227&ref=mf
or email me mbroute66@charter.net for more info