Christmas Eve Party for the Needy
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“I´ve just always been told: this is your life. Don´t ever expect anything more or wish for anything more.” Bertrina, YFS client and currently homeless.
What are you doing this Christmas Eve? Probably dreading the crack- of- dawn wake up rally from the kids desperate to get to their presents. Or perhaps you’re just looking forward to a long lunch with family and friends.
For many of Logan’s disadvantaged, including an estimated 10,000 children living in poverty, their immediate and urgent focus at Christmas is about where they’re going to sleep that night and how to keep their children safe. Many have no extended family or are estranged from them, and with the majority of support services closed over the break, Christmas can be an extremely difficult and very lonely time of the year.
We are an informal group, consisting largely of largely media and hospitality professionals who want to help. We are not qualified to affect any long term change in the lives of people who are less blessed than we are, but we can help bring a little light into their lives at a time when they must feel forgotten.
As ‘Hospitality with Heart’, our group includes some of Brisbane’s finest chefs and restaurateurs as well as print and TV media professionals. We have teamed up with Logan charity YFS to produce a Christmas Eve party for the most needy families and individuals in Logan. They include children, victims of domestic abuse and refugee families. Our vision is to give them a night to remember, with an all- the- trimmings Christmas Eve party with beautiful food, music and hopefully lots of laughter.
All of us are donating our time and (variable!) skills as chefs, waiters and cleaners for the night, but are asking for your contribution to allow us to make it a really special evening for these people who are doing it tough.
Your generous donation will help provide a Christmas party for 150 of Logan's most needy, including food (an elegant traditional Christmas dinner), a gift for each child and adult, a Christmas tree, decorations and more.
If there are any surplus funds, they will be donated to YFS to help them continue doing the excellent work they do in Logan.
We would like to try to raise $10,000 within the next month to get this party started!
Hospitality with Heart and YFS thanks you.
What are you doing this Christmas Eve? Probably dreading the crack- of- dawn wake up rally from the kids desperate to get to their presents. Or perhaps you’re just looking forward to a long lunch with family and friends.
For many of Logan’s disadvantaged, including an estimated 10,000 children living in poverty, their immediate and urgent focus at Christmas is about where they’re going to sleep that night and how to keep their children safe. Many have no extended family or are estranged from them, and with the majority of support services closed over the break, Christmas can be an extremely difficult and very lonely time of the year.
We are an informal group, consisting largely of largely media and hospitality professionals who want to help. We are not qualified to affect any long term change in the lives of people who are less blessed than we are, but we can help bring a little light into their lives at a time when they must feel forgotten.
As ‘Hospitality with Heart’, our group includes some of Brisbane’s finest chefs and restaurateurs as well as print and TV media professionals. We have teamed up with Logan charity YFS to produce a Christmas Eve party for the most needy families and individuals in Logan. They include children, victims of domestic abuse and refugee families. Our vision is to give them a night to remember, with an all- the- trimmings Christmas Eve party with beautiful food, music and hopefully lots of laughter.
All of us are donating our time and (variable!) skills as chefs, waiters and cleaners for the night, but are asking for your contribution to allow us to make it a really special evening for these people who are doing it tough.
Your generous donation will help provide a Christmas party for 150 of Logan's most needy, including food (an elegant traditional Christmas dinner), a gift for each child and adult, a Christmas tree, decorations and more.
If there are any surplus funds, they will be donated to YFS to help them continue doing the excellent work they do in Logan.
We would like to try to raise $10,000 within the next month to get this party started!
Hospitality with Heart and YFS thanks you.
Organizer
Natascha Mirosch
Organizer
Petrie Terrace QLD
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