Happy Valentine's Day from AAHS!

We hope your Valentine's Day was full of love!

Our residents made bracelets for their moms with Devotion Farms last week! Thanks for the Valentine's Day project!

Don't forget to join us tomorrow night at the 40 Watt for Spread the Love!

Tis the Season!

In order to allow our residents to do their own Christmas shopping, we are asking for donations of gift cards to Wal-Mart and Target this Holiday Season. Please consider donating gift cards in any amount. Cards can be dropped off at the shelter any time! Staff is here 24 hours a day.

Alternatively, please donate online in any amount. Funds donated to the campaign will be transferred into gift cards for our residents. You can donate online here.

If you're interested in providing a holiday activity at the shelter, please let us know! 

We're excited to see all of our volunteers over the holiday season!

Holidays at Athens Area Homeless Shelter

First of all, thanks so much to all of our supporters throughout the year! AAHS could not do what we do without your donations, time, and support. We are so grateful for all of you who participate in our volunteer opportunities, provide funding for the organization, and spend time with our residents.

We want to give you an update on our holiday opportunities this season:





We have had great success getting dinner volunteers for November and December! We're still looking for volunteers for the week between Christmas and New Years, as well as a few days scattered throughout December. For an up to date calendar of the dates that still need  volunteers, please check out our volunteer page.

Our coat and blanket drive has been a great success so far! Thanks so much to all who have donated. We will continue to collect coats, blankets, and other warm items through mid December. Once all of our residents have been given warm items, the remainder will be distributed to the community through JobTREC and other organizations.

We are asking for gift cards to Target and Walmart so that our residents can go Christmas shopping for their families. If  you are interested in donating gift cards to the shelter, please bring them by between 10 and 6 on weekdays up until December 16. You also can donate to our gift card fund here.

We are so proud of one of our twelve year old residents, who has been nominated for the People to People World Leadership Forum 2012. This opportunity allows her to spend four days in Washington DC attending programming for future leaders. We're so proud of her and look forward to seeing her succeed in this program. To donate to this cause, please click here.

AAHS has several new door knobs and curtain rods that need to be
installed. If you are skilled in home installations and repairs, please let us know! We want our residents to be proud of their living space, and little things like door knobs and curtains can make a huge difference! Please call or email us if you're interested in helping with this.





Thanks again for all you do to support Athens Area Homeless Shelter! We look forward to continuing to work with you in the coming months! If you have questions or ideas for volunteer opportunities you would like to share with us, please email volunteer@helpathenshomeless.org or call the office at 706-354-0423

The Athens Area Homeless Shelter team

Holiday Meals

Holidays are an important time: a chance to reconnect with families, to show appreciation through gifts, and to look at the blessings in life. Here at Athens Area Homeless shelter, holidays are also a time when we need lots of volunteers. While we have dinner volunteers booked for many dates in November and December, we are in need of groups to provide meals during the weeks surrounding Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Eve. For a full list of the dates we need, please see our calendar at http://helpathenshomeless.org/mobilize/volunteer/. Although many of our residents spend the actual holidays with friends or family, the days before and after holidays need groups to volunteer.

If you have family coming in for a holiday and would like to do a service project together, or are looking for a holiday project to do with your Church or other religious organization, please consider providing dinner at the shelter. If  you have any questions, please contact AAHS staff at 706-354-0423 or at volunteer@helpathenshomeless.org. Thank you so much to all of our volunteers and donors this holiday season. We are so grateful for your support, and we couldn't help the families that are here without you.