Projects
One of the primary purposes of Kingwood Women's Club is to do volunteer work in the community. Some of our current projects are listed below.
Community Events: This project encompasses volunteer activities in support of other local organizations. Some examples are the Houston Food Bank, the YMCA Bridgefest, Celebrate the Arts, Support Our Troops, Kingwood Garden Club Christmas Home Tour, and Kleenwood.
FamilyTime: FamilyTime is a Humble, Texas area social service agency providing counseling and crisis intervention to victims of family violence or sexual assault. KWC members volunteer at the FamilyTime Resale Shop sorting and stocking items for sale. The money raised at the Resale Shop supports The Door, a local women's shelter.
Humble Area Assistance Ministries (HAAM): This organization is a community coalition supported by donations and Resale Shop proceeds, which provide social services and food to those in need. At Humble Area Assistance Ministries, KWC members volunteer in the Resale Shop, the Food Pantry, Social Services and help with receptionist/clerical duties. We also support the Back to School program and during the holiday season we help bag and distribute food items.
Kingwood Library: Members help with their Used Book Sales and Patron Counts plus do other volunteer work as needed.
Local Elementary Schools: We support the efforts of Humble ISD and New Caney ISD elementary schools in the following ways: teacher assistance projects such as laminating, Xeroxing, coloring and assembling books; students selected by a school are given clothing bought by members twice a year; mentoring elementary students; and assistance for vision and hearing testing.
Project Mammogram: Project Mammogram is a Northeast Hospital Foundation Program, in conjunction with Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital, offering free mammograms and appropriate follow up treatments (ultrasounds, biopsies, etc.) to qualifying area women who have no insurance or whose incomes are not low enough to qualify for Medicaid.
The program began in 2001 with a $5,000 donation from Kingwood Women’s Club to Northeast Hospital Foundation in Humble, Texas to establish this program. We continue to support this project financially through the proceeds of our annual Holiday Marketplace. In addition, we provide volunteers to help clients fill out applications, make phone calls and perform other clerical services and give breast health educational training and presentations. If you would like information about volunteering for or making a donation to Project Mammogram, please call The Breast Center at 281-540-6443 after 1:00 PM.
Through the 2008 – 2009 Club year, Kingwood Women’s Club has donated a total of $90,763 to Project Mammogram. In addition, funding also comes from Susan G. Komen Foundation annual grants, Memorial Hermann Northeast contributions and discounted services and private contributions.
Local women wishing to be considered for "Project Mammogram" need to be referred by their personal physician or apply through one of the missions (HAAM, Society of St. Stephen or Mission Northeast). Qualification is based on income, hospital service area, having no insurance or income not low enough to qualify for Medicaid.
For more information or to register for this program, please contact The Breast Center at 281-540-6443 after 1:00 PM. You may also register through Humble Area Assistance Ministries (281-446-3663), Society of St. Stephen (281-358-7722) or Mission Northeast (281-354-1200). (Call for the hours and days we will be at each location.)
Society of St. Stephen (SOSS): We volunteer at this social service agency by bagging groceries in the food pantry, distributing clothing to clients and stocking and distributing holiday food bags.
Feed My Lambs: Members prepare and distribute lunch to shut-ins and low income families.
Kingwood Pines Hospital: Kingwood Pines Hospital is a community based mental health facility that provides short term resident care for adults and adolescents. Members provide volunteer hours in addition to donations of clothing, games, crafts and gifts on special holidays to the adolescent ward, many of which are Child Protective Services cases.
The Gathering Place: We provide one on one supervision/companionship to persons with Alzheimers, Parkinsons disease and Dementia so that their regular caregivers can have a much needed break. This program is sponsored by Kingwood United Methodist Church.
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