Third Annual Winter Holiday Toy Drive 2005

Wambli Ho, Voice of the Eagles

A Colorado Non-Profit Organization

and

He Ska Tokala Sobriety Society

and

Wowitan Yuha Mani (David Swallow, Jr.)

Third Annual Winter Holiday Toy Drive 2005

To Benefit The Porcupine District

of The Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota Reservation in South Dakota

As summer comes to a close, it is time to look forward and prepare for the winter holidays. Wambli Ho, Voice of the Eagles, in conjunction with the He Ska Tokala Society, will once again be having our Annual Toy Drive this year.

Since the number of clothing banks have grown on the reservation, we have decided to concentrate primarily on collecting new toys for the children. If you are not comfortable with sending new toys, you may also send new socks or gloves. Additionally, batteries, blank cassette tapes, and/or personal care items (shampoos, conditioners, soaps, grooming kits, etc.) are also great ideas for the older kids.

Financial donations will also be gratefully accepted. Please designate whether you wish the money to be spent on toys, personal care items, or fresh fruit to be distributed. Please include your return address so that we may send you a receipt.

Wambli Ho, Voice of the Eagles is a Colorado Non-Profit Corporation and accountable as such to the State of Colorado. However, we have not had the funds to enable us to complete the filing for our Federal 510(c)3 tax-exempt status yet. Please understand that your donations are gifts of the heart and not tax-deductible.

All items will be distributed in the Porcupine District of the Pine Ridge Reservation by David Swallow, Jr., community volunteers, and Wambli Ho Volunteers.

Please remember these children see the same commercials as your children see. They have the same desires and wants and hopes. Let's spread some joy! All gifts, large and small, will be gratefully received.

If you need ideas as to what are "cool" toys, just visit any toy department and ask a child or teenager in the aisles. They'll usually be quite happy to tell you which are great and which are not so great.

Please send all articles unwrapped so that the gifts can be matched appropriately to the children.

Deadline for receiving packages and donations is December 10th

For Financial Donations:

Please make checks payable to: Wambli Ho, Voice of the Eagles

and mail to our Treasurer:

Wambli Ho, Voice of the Eagles
c/o Audrey Link, Treasurer
P. O. Box 2253
Longmont CO 80502-2253

For Unwrapped Toys and Other Gifts, Please mail to collection point:

Wambli Ho Voice of the Eagles
c/o Audrey Link
705 Nelson Park Circle

Longmont, CO 80503

please mark boxes: "LEAVE ON FRONT PORCH")

Phone Number for UPS Deliveries: 303-554-5363

All administrative costs associated with this project are personally and fully underwritten by Audrey Link, Director of Link Center Foundation.

Therefore,
All specified donations go 100% to help the Elders

(Mark your check, "Elders Heating Fund")

The administrative costs are the required 2-1/2% of all donations which national heritage foundation charges Link Center Foundation to service. There are no other administrative costs unless you count postage or printing which Audrey also pays for.

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December 2005 Reports

Last updated on December 09, 2005