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Share the Plate: Saltwater gives half of it's weekly
collection (excluding pledge payments) to a South King County
non-profit. You can nominate a non-profit organization to
benefit from our collection plate.
Click here for the nomination form. Or for more information,
click here for a summary of the project.
Hospitality House: Saltwater
Church is one of twelve churches in the Des Moines-Burien area
committed to providing nutritious evening meals (one full week
every quarter) for the homeless women who shelter there
temporarily, bringing supplies the shelter needs to keep
running, providing household starter kits for women who move out
of the shelter, and supporting fundraising events of Hospitality
House.
Click here for a list of items needed for household starter
kits.
Food Bank Support: Saltwater
UU Church maintains an ongoing program of support for local food
banks. Continuous sales of fair trade coffee produce proceeds
that are given directly to food banks in our area. The
congregation also holds food drives every month with
successive drives typically benefiting different food banks in
our area.
Microbanks! Saltwater
funds microbanks through Foundation for International Community
Assistance (click here
for the FINCA website). We have now funded 11 banks! The
banks are funded through a combination of donations and an
annual holiday fair trade sale. The 2009 fair
trade sale was a success! Thanks to all who shopped, bought and
donated. We will be funding a microbank in Jordan this year.
Check back this spring for more information about this new bank. If you are
interested in making a donation to help fund a future microbank, send a
check to the church with "microbank donation" in the memo line.
We have photographs and reports on the
activities of ten banks we have already funded.
Click here to read about our
banks in Tajikistan, Haiti, Malawi, Afghanistan, the Congo, and
Guatemala.
The Saltwater Recycling Project:
Many tools and products of our modern world are not
being adequately recycled. Hazardous materials that are
recycled are often reclaimed by the poor working in unsafe
conditions in developing countries. The SUUC Social Justice
Committee and the Green Sanctuary Committee are committed to
increasing the quantity and quality of our recycling
efforts.
Saltwater Church raises thousands for
Adopt-a-Minefield: In dozens of countries around the
world, more than a million abandoned landmines lie in wait for
unsuspecting civilians to literally stumble across them.
Thousands of people, mostly children, are killed or crippled by
landmines every year. In the spring of 2008, Saltwater Church
completed our sixth successful Night of 1000 Dinners to raise
funds for the removal of landmines and treatment of landmine
victims.
Led by Patrick Clay, members of the Saltwater Church organized an elegant dinner
potluck dinner. Wild Wheat bakery in Kent donated bread for our
event. The project raised over $2000 to assist in clearing
landmines and treating landmine victims.
For more information on landmines see
www.landmines.org.
The Etta Projects:
Saltwater UU Church supports the Etta Projects in their
continuing work to help impoverished mothers and children in
Bolivia. Port Orchard resident Etta Turner died in 2002 in an
automobile accident when she was an exchange student in Montero,
Bolivia. The Etta Projects carry on in her memory, providing
nutrition for local children as well as education and employment
for their mothers. For more information, see the
Etta Projects website.
Congregation sent $4000 to UUSC for flood and hurricane relief:
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as well as
less-publicized floods of Unitarian communities in Romania, the
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee set out to ease
suffering in both regions. The congregation of Saltwater Church
immediately donated $4000 to the cause. To date the UUSC has
raised over $2.5 million for humanitarian aid to these areas.
For more information, see go to www.uusc.org.
Congregation sent $3000 to UUSC for
tsunami relief: In January of 2005, Saltwater Church
took up a collection to help fund humanitarian efforts in the
aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami of the Indian Ocean. On this
first day of giving, the congregation donated $3000. The UUSC has raised
over a million dollars for
humanitarian work in the devastated Indian Ocean area. For more
information on UUSC and their tsunami relief work see
www.uusc.org.
Cocoa and Chocolate sales fund
Education Projects:Funds raised from the sales of
fair-trade organic cocoa and chocolate at Saltwater UU Church
have gone to support education projects in Dimiao, on the island
of Bohol in the Philippines, and in rural Mali (Africa).
Click
here for more information on this project.
Fair Trade: The social justice
committee supports fair trade commerce. Saltwater UU church
regularly sells fair trade, organic, shade grown coffee, and
periodically sells fair trade crafts as a fund raiser for the
micro-bank project. To buy coffee, sign up and leave your check
in the kitchen.
Click here for more information on fair trade organizations.
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