More Than Gold Hospitality Team needs your help!

The Hospitality Team is seeking donations to prepare Welcome Bags for those attending the upcoming Olympics and Paralympics. Our goal is to prepare 25,000 Welcome bags and an additional 3,000 Care bags to be given to the homeless on the streets of Vancouver. It is a big project and you can help by donating the following items over the course of this spring and summer. Come September we’ll assemble the bags and store them for distribution next February and March.

Shipping instructions:

*When preparing your cartons of items clearly indicate the exact contents on an exterior label.

Make sure the label says, “GIFT”.

*It is preferred that you gather and ship items by the month indicated on the chart, if at all possible.

>>>In both cases this will save us a great deal of time on the assembly of the bags.<<<

Ship/deliver items to:

West Coast Baptist Association                    

More Than Gold

131 Kings Road

North Vancouver, BC   V7N 1H4

Items for Welcome Kits                                Items for Care Kits

Lip Balm                                                         Lip Balm                     Toothbrush

Rain Poncho                                                 Rain Poncho               Toothpaste

Band-aids                                                      Kleenex                       Shampoo        

Kleenex                                                         Sunscreen/lotion          Soap               

Sunscreen/lotion                                         Hand Warmers            Socks

Mini note pad                                               Hand wipes                                                    

Hand wipes                                                  Mittens                                    

Canada logo pens/pencils                        *Scarf

Hand Warmers

Sizes of Items:

Some items can be bought in bulk and separated into smaller units – pencils, hand wipes, mini note pads, etc.

Other items must be procured in smaller travel size units – shampoo, soap, sunscreen, lotion, Kleenex, band-aids, toothpaste, etc. Please do not send large sized items.

Gloves and socks need to be in adult sizes.

*Scarves are a special item for all the knitters out there. Patterns can be requested by e-mailing morethangoldhospitality@gmail.com.  For those that knit without a pattern, we ask that the scarves be one solid color (preferably not deep purple), 5” wide and 5-6’ long.  Any pattern can be used.  4” tassels in the More Than Gold colors (deep purple, red, blue, green, yellow/gold) can be added to both ends of the scarf; or, send the scarf in without the tassels and we’ll add them!

Schedule for shipping items:

By mailing per the schedule you help us with storage and inventory control.

            May                             June                             July                              August

            Hand Warmers       Rain Ponchos           Sunscreen                  Lip Balm

            Band-Aids                Kleenex                       Hand Wipes               Note Pads      

            Toothpaste              Toothbrush                 Shampoo                    Scarves

            Gloves                      Socks                           Logo pen/pencils      Soap