Dear Friends and Family,
We hope that you all have had a great year of successes, accomplishments, and memorable times with your loved ones. ROK108.com requests your support in continuing our Thanksgiving tradition of helping people who are in need.
With your generous support over the past 11 years, we have been able to provide gift bags with food and personal care items to residents of Skid Row in Downtown LA and provide gifts/food to needy families in Pomona and El Monte. We have expanded our support to several other charitable organizations globally. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the LA area portion homeless support, here is a link to a video of a prior year’s Donation Drive.
Click link below or copy and paste into your web browser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2KTcFFROmU
Below is a sample list of what we include in our gift bags
Fruit snacks Pudding
Crackers Sports drink (similar to Gatorade or Powerade)
Cookies Water bottle
Granola bars Toilet paper
*Last year we had 16 items
In previous years, we had also included higher cost items such as throw blankets and sweaters that were well received by the needy who also have requested we provide socks and beanies.
In 2017, we had a gracious family donate $1000 worth of household supplies for 5 homes and we had Mother International Charity donate $1,400 of their fund raised money as they believe in our cause. Do keep in mind all the admin costs were paid for by the volunteers including, gas, food, etc. We are proud to say that 100% of your donation goes to help people in need.
2018 GOAL:
$4,320 Distribute 432+ bags including a minimum of 12 food/drink items and add pair of socks or beanie - $10 per bag
$1,000 Deliver household supplies to 5 low income families - $200 per home
$750 Deliver cooking supplies to Heri Kweru - Children's Handicap Hospital in Bukavu, DR Congo
$375 Fund Shree Anandabawa Gaushala (cow shelter home) Jamnagar, India
$375 Fund Shree Anandabawa Seva Sanstha towards children studying Hinduism
$375 Fund Akshaya Patra - Feeding children mid day meals in India
$375 Fund Pratham - Educates children in India
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$7,570 2108 ROK108 Goal
In order to reach our goal for this great cause, we ask for your time in participating as well as a monetary donation. Any amount of donation is greatly appreciated. However, amounts of $101 to $251 is a general range of what is received per family.
We purchase the food and supplies on Wednesday 1pm and assemble the bags at 5pm so that we are ready to go on Thanksgiving morning.
TIMELINE for packing and distributing the bags:
Wednesday November 21st, 2018
5:00 p.m. - Filling of the bags at our residence listed below. We will need an abundance of volunteers for this evening. We will also arrange the vehicles for delivery on Thursday so please let us know if you have an SUV/Van and would be interested in driving to Downtown LA on Thursday.
7:45pm- Dinner meal will be provided by our family for all volunteers.
Address:
14045 Night Song Court
Chino Hills, CA 91709
***Please select "Kotecha" at the gate box
Thursday November 22nd, 2017
9:30am - We will be meeting at our house to load the cars and determine seating arrangements.
10:00am- leave for donation site(s)
DONATION:
Checks - made out to Nishant Kotecha
Venmo - @Nishant-Kotecha
Paypal- 108nrk@gmail.com (please send as "gift" to avoid fees)
Gift cards- Costco gift card
Memo line: ROK108 THANKSGIVING 2018
Mailing Address
Nishant Kotecha
P.O. Box 2858
Chino Hills, CA 91709
We hope everyone will be able to join us for this special occasion. Thank you all again for your support over the last 12 years and we look forward to seeing all old and new faces this year!
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
-Amit, Sarah, Pushpa ben, and Nishant Kotecha
nishant@rok108.com 909-703-3555
amit@rok108.com 909-319-4858
sarah@rok108.com 508-944-4699
We hope that you all have had a great year of successes, accomplishments, and memorable times with your loved ones. ROK108.com requests your support in continuing our Thanksgiving tradition of helping people who are in need.
With your generous support over the past 11 years, we have been able to provide gift bags with food and personal care items to residents of Skid Row in Downtown LA and provide gifts/food to needy families in Pomona and El Monte. We have expanded our support to several other charitable organizations globally. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the LA area portion homeless support, here is a link to a video of a prior year’s Donation Drive.
Click link below or copy and paste into your web browser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2KTcFFROmU
Below is a sample list of what we include in our gift bags
Fruit snacks Pudding
Crackers Sports drink (similar to Gatorade or Powerade)
Cookies Water bottle
Granola bars Toilet paper
*Last year we had 16 items
In previous years, we had also included higher cost items such as throw blankets and sweaters that were well received by the needy who also have requested we provide socks and beanies.
In 2017, we had a gracious family donate $1000 worth of household supplies for 5 homes and we had Mother International Charity donate $1,400 of their fund raised money as they believe in our cause. Do keep in mind all the admin costs were paid for by the volunteers including, gas, food, etc. We are proud to say that 100% of your donation goes to help people in need.
2018 GOAL:
$4,320 Distribute 432+ bags including a minimum of 12 food/drink items and add pair of socks or beanie - $10 per bag
$1,000 Deliver household supplies to 5 low income families - $200 per home
$750 Deliver cooking supplies to Heri Kweru - Children's Handicap Hospital in Bukavu, DR Congo
$375 Fund Shree Anandabawa Gaushala (cow shelter home) Jamnagar, India
$375 Fund Shree Anandabawa Seva Sanstha towards children studying Hinduism
$375 Fund Akshaya Patra - Feeding children mid day meals in India
$375 Fund Pratham - Educates children in India
======
$7,570 2108 ROK108 Goal
In order to reach our goal for this great cause, we ask for your time in participating as well as a monetary donation. Any amount of donation is greatly appreciated. However, amounts of $101 to $251 is a general range of what is received per family.
We purchase the food and supplies on Wednesday 1pm and assemble the bags at 5pm so that we are ready to go on Thanksgiving morning.
TIMELINE for packing and distributing the bags:
Wednesday November 21st, 2018
5:00 p.m. - Filling of the bags at our residence listed below. We will need an abundance of volunteers for this evening. We will also arrange the vehicles for delivery on Thursday so please let us know if you have an SUV/Van and would be interested in driving to Downtown LA on Thursday.
7:45pm- Dinner meal will be provided by our family for all volunteers.
Address:
14045 Night Song Court
Chino Hills, CA 91709
***Please select "Kotecha" at the gate box
Thursday November 22nd, 2017
9:30am - We will be meeting at our house to load the cars and determine seating arrangements.
10:00am- leave for donation site(s)
DONATION:
Checks - made out to Nishant Kotecha
Venmo - @Nishant-Kotecha
Paypal- 108nrk@gmail.com (please send as "gift" to avoid fees)
Gift cards- Costco gift card
Memo line: ROK108 THANKSGIVING 2018
Mailing Address
Nishant Kotecha
P.O. Box 2858
Chino Hills, CA 91709
We hope everyone will be able to join us for this special occasion. Thank you all again for your support over the last 12 years and we look forward to seeing all old and new faces this year!
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
-Amit, Sarah, Pushpa ben, and Nishant Kotecha
nishant@rok108.com 909-703-3555
amit@rok108.com 909-319-4858
sarah@rok108.com 508-944-4699