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| SVDP items to be sorted later |
The neighborhood must be getting more upscale--we used to have only
one Peninsula charity that sent a truck to pick up donations such as clothes, furniture, and electronics. Now two others from the East Bay visit once a month (frankly, I'm not sure they're real charities).
We decided to donate our stuff the old-fashioned way by taking it to the
receiving location for St. Vincent de Paul.
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| A bedroom at Catherine Center |
SVDP received only
three stars (the best get four) from
Charity Navigator, but I've seen the good work that the SVDP
Catherine Center in Daly City does to help women prisoners transition back to society. Per
a NY Times article on the California prison system:
Inmates are often released with no warning to friends or family, with no money, no means of transportation and no clothes other than the jumpsuits on their backs.
A donation of cash or goods to SVDP is not only charity, it's insurance.
© 2013 Stephen Yuen
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