Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Don't Miss the 2011 Angel Party!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
What's the deal with this party?
This is the 11th year the American Society has thrown a Christmas party for the more than 200 children we help support through the Community Action Committee.
We rent buses to bring the children toVolunteering a whole day?
Is it fun?
Yes.
Lots of fun?
Yup.
Even for volunteers?
Oh yeah.
And the kids you invite?
Do you need help?
Yes. Immediately, right now, we need to find 85 more people willing to sponsor a child for the party. That means buying all the items in the gift bag that Santa will give the child. We’ll give you the child’s name, age, clothes size and shoe size. You go shopping and buy the things on the list. Then you get that back to us at convenient drop off points or the October Newcomers coffee and you’ve made a difference in the life of a child who otherwise might get nothing for Christmas.

What goes in each bag?
Or...
You give us R$300 and we’ll do the shopping for you! Let us know and we’ll figure out how to make that happen.
You can also consider contributing towards our other expenses as the start up money we get each year doesn’t cover half of what we need to make this party work. We need help with buses, entertainment, ice cream, soft drinks and juice, water, popcorn and prizes.
And finally, we need volunteers on the day of the party and a few pre-party work days. Let us know.

But mostly right this second…
We need people to sponsor a child. Talk to your friends, your co-workers, your neighbors, your in-laws and your kids. Make it an office event with everyone contributing one thing. Share expenses with a friend. Sponsor two children! Thank you for helping and we look forward to hearing from you! Main Angel Party Boss Eileen Tasso Gift Bag Coordinator Sue Banman Sileci |

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
A great day of great deliveries!

Yesterday was the big Final Delivery Day at Newcomers and we received nearly all of our gift bags. Thank you so much to everyone who made such an effort to shop, wrap and deliver on time. Our lives in this city can be so crazy and we all know that it’s not easy. So we really do appreciate the effort.
For those of us who have to organize, sort and count bags, having everything in on time makes an incredible difference in terms of our stress, our finances and our energy. Thanks to all of you!
If you didn’t deliver your bag on time…

But we need all bags delivered by
October 14 or we’ll have to use part of the cash reserves we have set aside for things like food to buy presents for your child. How’s that for a guilt trip?
Seriously, there needs to be a cut off date and it was yesterday. When our sponsors miss that, we start to get nervous.
October 14 is the final of final dates or we’ll have to consider you a no-show. And we don’t want to do that. Honestly.
There is now one delivery address only:
Rua França, 186
Jardim Europa
Between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Confirm with João at 3082-4338 before driving over so he knows to expect you.
Thank you!
Our Next Big Day

What happens is that a group of us goes out to the Transnway International moving company’s storage in Taboão da Serra. We spend the morning having snacks, making jokes and, almost as important, checking these things:
• that each child coming to the party is accounted for
• that each gift bag has arrived
• that all bags are complete
• that all gifts are labeled and put into large white plastic bags
If you’d like to help, contact Karri Ware at Holtnkarri@aol.com.
Transnway makes its storage facilities available to us for storing the bags and other supplies until the day of the party. Thank you! They also send a truck to haul bags from Newcomers to their storage area. Thank you! They take the bags to Chapel school for us. Thank you! And this is the tenth year in a row they’ve done this for us. Thank you!
http://www.transway.com.br/english/home/home.html

We'll be so hungry!

It seems like a lot of food but those of us with our own children (and our own tummies) know that every three hours or so it’s good to have something to eat besides ice cream and cookies. While pizza or esfihas aren’t considered the healthiest of snacks, it’s what we like to serve because it’s easy to eat and something different for the ordinary routine of rice and beans for these kids.
To feed all of the children and all of our volunteers, we need the equivalent of 100 pizzas. We’re looking for donations – one big donation, 3 smaller donations, 10 even smaller donations – so that we have a warm savory food to serve the children in the afternoon. If you know of a pizza place (or 10 or one of 10) that might be willing to stoke up their ovens and make us 100 pizzas for the afternoon of November 14, let us know. If you have another idea for how to feed these kids a warm snack, let us know!
If you have extra cash and would just like to chip in towards 100 pizzas, let us know that too!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Would you like to help on November 14?

If you’d like to help, we have two time periods open for volunteering:
11:30 to 2:30 p.m.
2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
During the first time period you’ll serve lunch, work at the welcome table or run games. During the second period you’ll help Santa deliver the gift bags, help kids open their gifts and clean up.
If you want to volunteer to help at the party – and we hope you do because we need help! – please contact Karri Ware at holtnkarri@aol.com. Tell her what kind of job you’d like and what time period you’d like to work.
Positions are open on a first-come, first-serve basis so drop Karri a line today to get the job of your dreams. The party is so much fun when you’re busy and doing what you like!
Wrap up the shopping and come on down!

October 7 at the Newcomer’s Coffee.
If you can’t make it to the coffee, you can deliver it to one of the drop off points listed below (scroll down) any time before the coffee. Those folks will get your bag to the coffee for you and you’ll be done!
Ahhhh, the good life.
Do we need more sponsors?

Come on. Six more children and we’re done!

Great shows!

And then at 2:30 we’ll have High School Musical 3 with the closest thing to Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens that São Paulo can supply.
When we asked how the show differed from the fabulous High School Musical that entertained us two years ago, we were told it was totally different, what with the kids graduating and this being their senior year. We expect great things!

Thursday, August 27, 2009
Winter Warning
Done shopping?

Some of you are done shopping, aren’t you? If you are, we’d like to receive your gift bag!
The final date for bag delivery is still over a month away, October 7. But some of you have done your shopping!
So, for those amazing folks who are done, here's an official drop-off moment:
International Newcomer’s Coffee
Wednesday, September 2, from 9-11:30 a.m.
Rua Job Lane, 1030
Please leave your bags at the front hall with the Angel Party representative you like the best.
There are other delivery points too, of course, between now and October 7. See below for names and addresses.
Time To Wrap Your Gifts

Wrap every gift as pretty as you can. Then, on the outside of each wrapped gift, write these things:
* The sex of the child
* The age of the child
* What’s in the package (socks size 35, pants size M, Barbie doll, for example)
Put everything inside a large bag. Label the bag any way you want with the child’s name and the institution he or she came from. It doesn’t have to be fancy or nice.

Please be sure you’ve included all the items on the checklist below. (Scroll down for the complete list.)
Thank you and see you September 2 (or latest, October 7).