HOW DOES WARM WISHES WORK

Warm Wishes creates a personal, human relationship between Marin volunteers and the people of the street when once a year volunteers distribute 5,000 "StreetPacks" or backpacks stuffed with new, warm gloves, scarves, hats, wool socks and rain ponchos to homeless men and women, living on the streets of the Bay Area. The winter accessories, manufactured under the direction of and funded by Warm Wishes, help them survive the difficult weather months.

One of the most valued pieces in each StreetPack is the heart-warming, personal holiday card hand-written by one of 5,000 Bay Area children.

On Distribution Day. Saturday, December 1, 2007, our volunteers, including families and their children, meet at a Marin church and within two hours assemble the StreetPacks. They then take to the road to personally distribute the packs to the Bay Area homeless. Our purpose is for the homeless people to stay warm; perhaps to save a life. But our purpose too is for a volunteer to reap the rewards of looking into the eyes of a stranger, of coming closer to understanding his or her plight and of filling with the heartfelt feeling of doing good for others.

WARM WISHES NEWS

The Warm Wishes StreetPack is about to get that much better. We hope to add to the pack a 34-piece medical kit, a thermal blanket, and/or a personal hygiene care kit consisting of such items as toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo and soap.

To fulfill this goal we will step up our fundraising, knowing that the value of these items to a homeless person is incalculable.