Allegany, Olean, Portville, Hinsdale, and
other communities have been affected by the flooding of creeks and
the Allegheny River.
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Do
you need help with your basement? BonaResponds volunteers will be
working with the Allegany Fire Department and the Red Cross - please
contact them if you will need assistance after the flood waters have
gone down. You can reach us by email (bonaresponds@sbu.edu) or by filling out a help request form here.
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If you need assistance immediately, contact the Emergency Operations Center at 716-938-2244.
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The
Cattaraugus County Emergency Response Team has set up an emergency
evacuation shelter in the San Damiano Room in Francis Hall at St.
Bonaventure University with the help of the Red Cross to help area
residents affected by flooding.
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Volunteers are needed for Sunday!!
Sign up below!
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Grand Total:
113,184 Meals
Food For Haiti Now: Food
Packaging Event
THANK YOU to all of the
volunteers!!!
On September
11th, over 500 volunteers came out to the Reilly Center to help pack
113,184 meals for children in Haiti with the help of a great
organization called Feed My Starving Children. With these meals, 310
children will eat a meal a day for an entire
year. Thanks so much to all of the organizations who helped us to plan,
fundraise, and come out for this event. It was an awesome experience!
Check out this video of our event:
A very special thanks to Michael Kintner of AmazingAerialPhotos.com
for creating this video for us.
We will post tons of pictures from the
food packing event and information on our continuing projects at FoodForHaitiNow.org
Please note: We are still fundraising
for the ingredients and
supplies needed for our event. Donations are greatly appreciated:
Donate online to this project at
Feed My Starving Children
or make checks
payable to "BonaResponds" and mail to
BonaResponds, Box BY, St. Bonaventure NY 14778
Volunteer
and Change the World!
Local
projects at BonaResponds are chosen to help individuals, schools, and
community resources - we want to help people. Cleaning up a
park,
maintaining
hiking trails, building a wheelchair ramp, walking dogs at the SPCA,
and many many other jobs can provide just this kind of help. Have
something in mind? Let us know by suggesting a job.
Recently
a group returned to Rose's house in Salamanca, where we put the
finishing touches on the house painting project that a team started on
an earlier local service day.
School
Supplies for Haiti
We
will be sending a shipment of school supplies to Haiti. Thanks so much
to all who have donated! We are collecting a variety of extra
school supplies, including
notebooks, pens, pencils, markers, crayons, calculators, backpacks, and
other items. School
supplies will be sent to schools and orphanages in Haiti.
School supplies may be dropped off at the following locations:
231 Murphy Building (west side of SBU campus),
Allegany Park and Shop,
Abbott Welding in Olean,
WESB 1490 Radio Station in Bradford,
or call 716-375-2111 to arrange a pickup
BonaResponds:
Millbury
A
group traveled to Ohio recently to help following the
recent tornadoes. Working alongside local residents and with other
volunteers, we helped residents by removing debris and trees that were
damaged by the storm.
Click here for a full slideshow
view of our work in Ohio!
Upcoming events include a project with CYC
at the Botanical Gardens and a local service project. Want to see how
you can help? Stay tuned to BonaResponds
blog and Twitter
for news.
BonaResponds:
Randolph
Recently,
BonaResponds spent a few days in Randolph helping to cut and remove
trees that came down from the recent tornado.
Work
like this comes up quickly in response to emergencies large and small.
Whether you have just a few hours or a whole day, have special skills
or no specific skills... come on out - have fun, work hard, and help
someone in need - BonaResponds could use your help!
Click above for pictures from our recent Spring Local Service Weekend!
Volunteers helped remove a wheelchair ramp, clean up parks, trails, and
streets,, paint
fences in a cemetery, make renovations at the Corner Stone Medical Loan
Closet, and more.
Local
Service Work
Did you know that BonaResponds goes out on work
days most weekends? Sure we have large projects like service
trips, International Service Days and 3-Day Local Service
Weekends, but we also work on projects on a smaller scale all the time.
BonaResponds is open to all - come join us!
Local
projects at BonaResponds are chosen to help individuals, schools, and
community resources - we want to help people. Cleaning up a
park,
maintaining
hiking trails, building a wheelchair ramp, walking dogs at the SPCA,
and many many other jobs can provide just this kind of help. Have
something in mind? Let us know by 
Recently,
BonaResponds spent a few days in Randolph helping to cut and remove
trees that came down from the recent tornado. 
