Last year I met a lovely nun, Sister Helen Ivanauskas, SJC (flanked in photo by Kevin and Jay from Bridgewater Life Teen) who heads up Lithuanian Children's Relief.She has a storage facility on the East Side of Brockton (my childhood home) that she fills with donations. When it gets about full she has an 18 wheeler come and take it away. Then the cargo is sent via container on a ship to Lithuania to go to poor villages.
Sister will take almost anything:
Clothes, furniture, books (no books against Catholic teaching), kitchen items, art, toys, musical instruments (last month they loaded a player piano), medical equipment...
Used is absolutely fine, but please don't give items severely damaged. It either causes Sister dispose of it here (at a cost sometimes) or waste cargo space and force the recipients to find a way to dispose of it.
Sister CAN NOT take computers or electronics because they are not compatible in Lithuania.
Because I am enthralled by Sister Helen's work I have devoted myself lately to helping her get donations, sort them and load the trucks.
If you'd like to donate you can either get stuff to me and I can bring it to her or, for larger items, contact me and I'll help make arrangements between you and Sister.
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You are to be congratulated!Sister Faustina and Our Lady,Queen of Peace in Medjugorje have said that charity has to be directed as a priority to the children!Lithuania with its heavy emigration risks extinction!Thank you in the name of the Lithuanian people!GOD BLESS!
I would like to arrange for a donation to the Lithuanian Children's Relief Fund in Brockton via check in memory of Lilian Russell, but need to speak with someone so I can obtain tax information to get the check processed. Can someone please contact me at mlovequist@walthamservices.com ASAP?
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