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Conservation
 

PROGRAM PRINCIPLES

The Conservation Community Service Program is designed to enable members to gain an understanding and appreciation of all aspects of our environment and the world’s resources, natural and man-made.

 

Click here for the GFWC Conservation CSP from the GFWC Club Manual.

Chairman: Denise Wheeler   DWMWZW@verizon.net

Our conservation projects have included:

 

Our club saved 2,000square feet of a tropical rain forest by going to Tropicana's website and typing in the code from Tropicana products.

Members donate or swap items through the local Freecycle organization to keep discarded items out of our landfills.

The GFWC Taunton and Raynham Juniors are collecting items for different locations in the local community and worldwide - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

 

 
 

We collect these items for local, national, and international organzations:

Stickers, labels, and cenceled stamps

[Missions in India] 

Small gift bags [St. Peters Church & St. Vincent dePaul

Butter tubs [art teachers]

Cards - holiday, birthday, etc. [crafts]

T-shirts (slightly worn)

Soda Tabs [Shriner's Hospital]

Costume jewelry

Mugs

Curtains [drama club]

Cross-stitch thread

Stickers and labels

Fabric and sewing materials [sent to Portugal for women to make clothes]

Yarn [hats for babies]

Puzzles [Veteran's Hospital]

Board Games [Veteran's Hospital]

Candle holders and jars [Girls, Inc.]

Stationary [Veteran's Hospital]

Shoulder pads [Girls, Inc.]

Ribbons [Girl's Inc.]

Pocket books, purses, wallets [women's shelters]

Gloves, mittens, hats, scarves [Dr. Persons - school adjustment counselor]

Magnets [teachers]

Shopping bags with handles

Plastic shopping bags [soup kitchen]

Tablecloths (cloth or plastic) [drama club]

Napkins [drama club]

Place mats [drama club]

Shoe boxes [teachers]

Metal hangers [teachers]

Old and broken candles [Girls, Inc.]

CapriSun pouches [schools]

baby clothes [Birthright]

Used dead batteries

 

 

 

 

 

Campbell Soup labels [schools]

Box Tops for Education [ schools]

Used children's books [Head Start]

Craft Supplies [The Arbors and Girls Inc.]

Stuffed animals [Taunton State Hospital patients

Kitchen supplies - pans, utensils, etc. [Samaritan House]

Used pens and pencils [Mission in India]

Bud vases or larger vases (glass or plastic) [florist shops]

Empty ink cartridges for printers [schools]

Small broken appliances [Girls, Inc. S.M.A.R.T. Program]

     hair dryers

     type writers

     cell phones

     clocks

     calculators

     telephones

     hand mixers

     radios

     can openers

     VCR's

     cameras

     toaster ovens

For animal shelter

     old blankets

     old towels (any size)

     old mattress covers

Tic-Tac containers

Empty thread spools

AOL or other CD's [science teachers]

Hood â“Sox” bottle caps

Metal coffee cans with lids