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February 8, 2019The Fight for the Right group is the Department for Persons with Disabilities community service group. The name was created by an individual from DPD who is a member of the group and implies fighting for what is right and providing service to those in our local communities, nation and worldwide who are in need.
The group is overseen by dedicated volunteers Anna Philhower and Jenn Minervino.The group meets monthly to decide upon and perform worthwhile community service projects. Projects have included creating centerpieces for a local woman's club annual "Bunny Brunch", donating Mother's Day gifts to a pregnant women's shelter, planting flowers at a nursing home, giving back to our veterans, supporting law enforcement, running product drives for pet adoption and animal reserves, donating food to food banks, handcrafting, filling and donating Christmas stockings to a social service agency, participating in the Houston Holocaust Museum’s butterfly holocaust memorial wall project and doing yard work and clean up at a community park for an annual Community Clean-up Day, among other projects. Group members give input regarding project ideas and which ones are ultimately chosen.
This month, the group gave back to the Morris Habitat for Humanity.
On February 8th Morris Habitat will celebrate the culmination of its Blitz Build with the dedication of one of their homes in Mine Hill . More than 1,500 volunteers came together to build three homes in just 10 days in Mine Hill last spring; the final home—a completely renovated three-bedroom finished this winter—will provide decent, safe and affordable housing for a fourth young family.
The Fight for the Right Group will be present at this event to give Welcome Baskets to the families who moved in to this home. The baskets consist of cleaning supplies, paper products, kitchen towels and spices. Their is also a lovely poem for each of the families included in the baskets.
We are proud of our Fight for the Right Group who do so much for those in need!
