Contact: …..
Rose Chapman ….. 596-9306

The Greater Springfield Habitat For Humanity brings families who need housing together with people that can provide help. Volunteers help build or rehabilitate simple homes and then provide the financing so families can afford to buy their own homes. Habitat charges no interest and makes no profit. Our parish will join other churches in a circle of faith, to raise money and to build a home. The homeowner will put 250 hours of "sweat equity" into building their home. Contact: ….. Peter Ablondi ….. 596-6700 Wayne Thrasher ….. 596-2612

The Greater Springfield Habitat For Humanity web site.

Heifer International is a non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to ending world hunger and saving the earth. Heifer provides livestock, trees, training and other resources to help poor families around the globe become more self-reliant. Recipients of a Heifer animal promise to share an offspring of this animal to a neighbor in need thus extending the reach of hope. Through a variety of Heifer activities, funds will be raised to purchase animals that are given to impoverished families in any of 125 countries. This will start a chain of giving that often touches thousands of lives. Contact: ….. Mary Manning ….. 596-9483

The Heifer International web site.

Help For Haiti--- A desire was indicated in the parish survey to have an international outreach. In the spirit of H.O.P.E., God has been planting the seeds for an involvement by the people of Saint Cecilia in Haiti. Haiti has been selected because it is the poorest country in the western hemisphere closest to the United States. Now more than ever, Haiti needs our help. By means of a core group, an ongoing study will research various ways of reaching out to our brothers and sisters in Haiti. Contact: ….. Carol McMinn ….. 596-8469

Crudem - Helping the People of Haiti web site.

Life's Choices is a licensed, independent, non-profit and non-denominational, child welfare agency that is dedicated to making teen parents self-sufficient. Its mission is to promote the sanctity of life. In a safe shelter, teens continue their education, receive parenting/life skill training, as well as proper prenatal and therapeutic psychological care. Life's Choices is the only residential program in Hampden County, which is open to pregnant teens that are not yet five and one-half months pregnant. Contact: ….. Richard and Diane Wright ….. 731-6896

Life's Choices web site.

Reader to Reader, Inc. is an award winning public charity whose goal is to efficiently collect and distribute books to needy school libraries both in Massachusetts and across the United States. The need for books is critical, because 60% of underprivileged children do not own a single book. The program is in need of gently used and new books, covering a range of subjects from literary classics, popular fiction, mysteries, and science fiction, to science, history, mathematics, economics, psychology, education and other subjects from Kindergarten through the Junior High School level. Contact: ….. Phyllis Ervin ….. 596-8455

The Reader to Reader web site.

Gift Cards: A fund raising program has been established to support our H.O.P.E. Ministry. Gift cards for local businesses, such as Stop and Shop, Kohls, Home Depot, etc., will be available for purchase through St. Cecilia Church. A percentage of these gift cards will be given to St. Cecilia H.O.P.E. Ministry. Gift Cards can be picked up after the masses on the third weekend of each month or they may be received by mail. An order form is available on the web site. Contact: ….. John and Sandy Gilbertie ….. 596-4983

Gift Card order form.

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