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Help women escaping domestic violence this holiday season
Photos and Story by James Hill
This holiday season you can help women escaping domestic violence set up a safe household for themselves and their children by donating to Portland Community College’s Annual “Laundry Basket Project.”
The Sylvania Women’s Resource Center, in collaboration with the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance student club, is sponsoring the fourth annual Laundry Basket Project. We are soliciting donations of non-toxic and environmentally safe household cleaning and personal hygiene products to be distributed to women who have escaped domestic violence, with the assistance of El Programa Hispano.
The Sylvania Women’s Resource Center upholds the principle of promoting wellness in individuals, families, the community, and our planet. Toxic chemicals are found in most household cleaning and personal hygiene products. This year the Laundry Basket Project is soliciting non-toxic and environmentally safe products.
Items needed include: Laundry Soap Dish Soap Toilet Tissue All Purpose Cleaner Shampoo Conditioner Hand Soap Tooth paste Tooth brushes Deodorant Sanitary Pads Diapers Some brands to look for: Trader Joe’s Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda, Avalon Burt’s Bees, Dr. Bronner Magic Soaps, Ecover EO, NatraCare, Naturally Yours, Oregon Soap Company and Tom’s of Maine Vermont Soap.
Your tax-deductible $35 cash donation will purchase all the items to fill one basket for a family of four. Make checks payable to PCC Sylvania WRC Donations may be dropped of at the Women’s Resource Center in CC 273 from now until December 11, 2006. For more info drop by or call 503.977.8101 or email us at wrc@pcc.edu.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »