Thank you for your interest in Abraham House. There are several ways you can make a tax-deductible contribution to support us:	Furniture Arrives : Rachel Cobb
Online To make an online contribution please use our secure donation form. Mail Send your contribution to: Abraham House P.O. Box 305 Mott Haven Station New York, New York 10454. Volunteer Lend A Hand
Look for additonal ways to donate below.

Volunteers Needed
If you have a skill or a profession and wish to use it in a program like ours, please contact us and we can tell you quickly if it matches our program needs. We hold workshops for the parents in our Family Center. These seminars are popular and span a wide range of subjects, from flower arranging to anger management. A volunteer runs our sports program for the children. Another takes photographs. Another is showing the children how to run their library and providing story hours. Other volunteers provide more than 21,000 hours of services each year. People even come for extended periods from France and Belgium to assist us. Call Ana Seda, if you have a query.

Make a donation to the Peter Pappas Scholarship Fund—or setup a scholarship in memory of someone you wish to honor
A gift of knowledge is a gift that will last a lifetime. Your contribution to the Peter Pappas Scholarship Fund will allow one of the youngsters in our After-School to attend St. Jerome, a nearby parochial school known for its discipline and tough curriculum.

$2,635 will pay for tuition, a uniform and books for one child for an entire school year. Your donation—in any amount—will make a huge difference in the life of one of the kids.

If you would like to establish a scholarship in the name of someone, assuring a child’s education for a year or throughout 8th grade or high school, we would be delighted. For example, the Evelyn Grace Koch Scholarship at Abraham House is ensuring the education of fourth-grader Catalina Aguilar through the 12th grade.

Make an online donation to the Peter Pappas Scholarship Fund, by using our secure donation form.

Contribute Books for the After-School Program
The After-School itself has a small library of approximately 250 used books, donated by private schools. These include fairy tales, fiction, non-fiction, science books (animal facts, earth science, etc.), biographies, etc.

We do not have enough books spanning the age/reading levels of the students from K to 8th grade. It would be a great assistance to have books in all genres across this span and also to obtain books to facilitate and enhance reading skills (decoding, high frequency words, comprehension, higher thinking skills).

Also needed: literature in Spanish to enable and encourage parents to read to and with their children.	Clothing is Distributed Weekends: Rachel Cobb
Please send book donations to: Teresa Gomez Abraham House P.O. Box 305 Mott Haven Station Bronx, New York 10454

Make monetary donation to the assist Abraham House in the purchase of books for children of prisoners, by using our secure donation form.

Wanted: Sponsors/Mentors to buy small blocks of tickets to movies, plays, concerts, dance, opera, sporting events (you name it) that will widen the horizons of our After-School youth, age 5 to 15. Discounted tickets often are available, but transportation and a hot dog and soda for each child adds up! If you would like to sponsor an outing and be part of it, contact Teresa Gomez.

Provide Practical Solutions to Poverty
In the aftermath of September 11, more than 30% of the adults in our Family Center are unemployed. Most are immigrants from Central and South America. These men and women worked in places where minimal English suffices, strong bodies are needed and relatively few questions are asked about your past. They swept and scrubbed in kitchens and hotels; they washed and parked cars; they worked on unlicensed crews, as day laborers, seamstresses, maids and in seasonal trades. They have very basic needs: money to pay the rent, heat and light; meat to supplement the family diet; blankets, sweaters and shoes. These families have many children and few of the essentials of life. Many children do not have beds of their own, and some sleep on the floor in overcrowded apartments.

Do you have something material you can donate:

• Warm, clean clothing in good condition. Our Clothing Closet is used by 250 families on the weekends.
• Blankets, comforters, sheets, and towels that are clean and usable
• Furniture in good condition
• Children’s necessities: Baby food, formula, Pampers are very expensive for mothers with newborns, and we have more than two dozen relying on us weekly.
• Educational software for the children in the After-School.
  Computer Software: e.g., Encarta, Infopedia, Britanica Encyclopedia, Chemistry cd’s, Earth Science, Math games, reading interactive activities. We request these things for all the various age groups ages 3 – 15.
• Bikes or board games for the children and other things that will improve their dexterity and their hand/eye coordination.

Even Shoes are Welcome: Rachel Cobb

Donations can also be shipped to Ana Seda at: Abraham House P.O. Box 305 Mott Haven Station Bronx, New York 10454

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Parish Assistant
Aid Catholic pastor of Parish of Offenders in operating CCD program on Saturdays and Sundays for close to 100 children. Also for assistance in networking with New Yorkers interested in criminal justice (chaplains, community groups), and similar outreach activities. Contact Fr. Peter Raphael.