12/23/08 - Project Iowa Family Night

Hi everyone. I hope the holiday season is finding you safe and well.

As I mentioned last time, I know the economy is hurting a number of you right now, and I want everyone to know that Gamers For Humanity is not just here to ask you for your help: we're here to help you as well, if you need it, in whatever way we can. This includes not only providing assistance in volunteering with our own work (helping you afford the New Orleans trip, for instance), but also assistance if you find that you are someone who needs our help as an organization--presents for your kids, flood recovery, paying for your heat for the winter, etc. Let us know.

On to the news.

On Saturday, December 13th, Project Iowa held a family night for the people they have been helping recover from this summer's flooding. They provided food, activities, and further recovery information, and they asked Gamers For Humanity to provide some games that the families could take home. Thanks to some very generous donations from you, our wonderful volunteers and donors, we were able to step up to the plate and donate a couple of dozen games for the cause.

That's about half of our donated stack of games on the table in the foreground, great classic family stuff. Right behind the games are some of the kids engaging in one of the nightly activities: sandbag painting. :) The ziplock bags at the very bottom of the picture are part of a huge supply of personal hygiene care packages that had been provided--toothpaste, shampoo, fingernail clippers, etc.

Project Iowa also provided one of the coolest disaster recovery resources I've ever seen:

Here's our protagonist, Bingo the Dog, busily filling sandbags:

Overall, the whole event was a big success, and I know the games were very popular. Project Iowa is doing a good thing, just letting these families know that they have not been forgotten by those who are trying to help them. Hopefully, we'll be able to work with them again in the future.

(The girl in pink had her eye on Operation from the moment it came out of the box...at least, that's what her "Oooohhhh!" led me to believe.)

Thank you all again for your support and generosity, and thanks to Project Iowa for their ongoing work. Keep your eyes open for an imminent report on the 08 Holiday Game Drive, which finished up yesterday.

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