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Dear Partage Sorting Volunteers,   You were registered for food sorting after Samedi du Partage. This activity is coming to an end. It will still take place until Friday, February 11 (last day).   If you wish to continue to support us in our voluntary missions, you can register without further ado for the preparation of shopping bags offered on our STC signup website.
It would be a big help if you would sign-out of the event..so I know your received this message. It would save me a phone call.   Merci   Thanking you for your commitment, best regards.

Dear volunteers,

yes, we have only 2 days more of food sorting at Partage offices, but have some more needs for Carrefour Rue and Biopark support. We are still working with Partage food bag creation program, Wednesday thru Friday mornings. And accepting sandwiches for the homeless at the MB soup kitchen. Aboudaby has 2 needs , weekly help at the distribution centre(displayed below) and a Saturday project of swapping winter clothes to summer clothes, Saturday 26 February. Carrefour Rue could also use 10 volunteers on Thursday 17 February to help move/sortout donated non clothing items to make available for those hurt financially the past few years. If you would like to help us by being a project leader on the one of the 2 one day events do mention it with your sign up request.

Carrefour Rue – Aboudaby Carrefour Rue works for people who are homeless or in need of assistance. In their shop “Aboudaby La Friperie Généreuse” clothes and linen are donated. We are looking for two volunteers every Tuesday and Friday afternoon from 14:00pm to 17:00 pm to help at Aboudaby. Description: Carrefour Rue offers a free clothing facility for those in need. Project Address: 154 route de Malagnou, Chene Bougeries, Switzerland (google maps pinpoints this location accurately) Via public transport: TPG 25 or 5, Get off at Malagnou Stop. Please send me a message if you are interested and I will get back to you. For more informations about the organisation: https://www.carrefourrue.ch/cr.php?p=acti&s=aboudaby“

Serve the City Geneva

Newsletters January 2022

Dear STC team,

We have been doing a great deal of work for the past two years under COVID.

Our teams have been very well protected from catching the virus during any of our events. And the volunteers have been very careful to sign-out of the event if they were in any way not feeling completely safe. We had some fantastic work done by many during the Christmas season and many people were served.

But now the good news/ bad news:

The Samedi du Partage food collection event was amazing!!  Around 250 tons of food and household supplies were donated by the generosity of the shoppers during that Friday and Saturday. The bad news is we estimate that it will take another 6 weeks to sort all the goods to make them available to those in need. So we are asking for your help. Serve the City has pledged sorting support 2 days a week through the end of February. Please get your families & friends (+16 years of age), your fellowship groups, any of your contacts. Basic Covid protocols are followed, mask, sprays, and distancing. We have chosen a variety of week days in hope we can find at least one that suits you. 

We have 10 different sign-up dates on our website. If you sign up for more that 5 days, register for the 1st day then put your other dates in the comments (trying to help you not having to signup 10 times ;o). And thanks for signing out of the event if you are not feeling well.

Dates are: 17, 24 January & 1, 3, 9, 11, 16, 18, 22 & 24 February

On Saturday, 22 January, we have an event at the BioPark in Bellevue. We are putting together a team to help prepare for some new Meerkats to the zoo. Families welcome.

Many many thanks the volunteers who participated in the Weekend Samdi du Partage food collection.
We had over 80 volunteers wonderfully directed by Alice & Katja who were the Project leaders on the event.

We now can be thinking about sorting the tons of donations collected this weekend. 
From 2 December to 14 January Food Sorting will be taking place week day mornings at the new Partage offices in  Plan-les-Ouates,
Serve the City has booked 1 day a week for 6 weeks and we hope to see you there.   If you are a teenager or older you are welcome to join in. 
You must signup on the www.ServeTheCityGeneva.ch website for your available days.   If our dates do not suit you, you can take a look at the Partage website for more options.  Serve the City booking days are;

10 Dec.  17 Dec.   22 Dec.  27 Dec.   6 Jan.  &  12 Jan.

 Espace Tourbillon,
bâtiment D,
19A Route de la Galaise,
1228 Plan-les-Ouates,
2ème étage  

The Zoo in Bellevue is preparing for a couple of new additions when 2 meerkats will be arriving in a few weeks. 
We are looking for 2 teams to help prepare a home for them on December 4 and December 11.
Again signup on the website and more information will be available.

Feeding the homeless is also one of our continuing projects at least thru December.
If you can make sandwiches on a Monday or Tuesday do make your offer known with a signup.
The Montbrilliant soup kitchen may still have a spot or two for helpers.  Do signup for information. 

Carrefour Rue is looking for some cooks to help out at the La Coulou emergency shelter. Some funding is available. 

We hope to have some Christmas / New Years project on offer soon, so do keep in touch.

We are always looking for more opportunities, so if you know or see something that may be of service do let us know.. 

Thank you for being one of our 2,600 registered volunteers here or near Geneva.

The STC Geneva team

Happy Halloween to all!

We have been doing amazing things since Covid began in early 2020.

Over 30’000 take-away meals, thousands of sandwiches made for the homeless.

100’s of bags of clothing collected to be given to those in need.

Our fixed team of volunteers in the Soup Kitchen has been doing an amazing job, several volunteers working for at least once a week for 18 months!!!

Now WE HAVE A NEW opportunity to serve the community. STCG needs 100 volunteers to collect food in 5 stores. The event is a semi-annual programme called “Samedi du Partage” (more explanations on the website), taking place on 26 and 27 November. If you, your family and friends would be willing to help, do sign up on our website www.servethecitygeneva.ch, on the “Current Activities” page.

We continue to encourage you to make sandwiches for the homeless through December. Or to help pack 5’000 food bags a week for distribution.

Have a look on our web page for more information.

We also will be looking for Christmas / New Year’s ways to serve as well. If you find opportunities in which we may help, do contact us (info@servethecitygeneva.ch).

Thanks in advance for your engagement! Do keep in touch.

Your Serve the City Geneva Team