Donations Accepted that
Sunday morning 7:30-9:00 AM in the circular drive at Murchison Middle School
3700 North Hills Drive, Austin TX 78731. Families arrive 10-11:30. Contact MurchisonESL@gmail.com with any questions.
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Who benefits?
- recently arrived refugee families
at Doss, Murchison and Anderson high schools.
These refugees are from Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran. For more about refugees, click here.
- other refugee families in the
neighborhood.
- a few other recently arrived
immigrants
Current Needs:
Please bring only good quality items.
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Clothing
o jeans and shorts for school children
o jackets or coats for rain and winter
o 1 family needs junior size 1-3 jeans
for 4 girls and shoes in women’s 6-8 narrow for the same girls.
o scarves
o black shorts, leggings, and sweat pants (for
middle school PE class)
o Maternity clothes for a
modestly-dressed woman who wears a size 4
o infant clothes for a girl due in December
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Household items
o MANY, MANY umbrellas (They walk everywhere and have large
families)
o electric fans (Many families do cannot
afford to use air conditioning.)
o sheets for twin and full beds
o towels
o pillows
o laundry detergent
o dish detergent
o sewing machines
o kitchen appliances, including coffee
maker
o flatware
o sets of dishes
o cookware
o 1 family is expecting a baby girl in
December and will need a stroller with a rain shield, and an infant car seat
o assorted car seats for toddlers and
pre-schoolers
clothing racks like this one --------->
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Furniture
o chairs
o desks,
o lamps
o fans
o end and coffee tables
o kitchen tables and chairs
o couches (if leather or vinyl) bugs like cloth
o leather or vinyl sofas and arm chairs
(Not cloth, please)
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Toys
o children's books that do not have
religious content
o bicycles of all sizes
o roller skates
o jump ropes
o skateboards
o any toys that can be shared among
children of different ages
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Electronics (Many of these have educational uses, and we
help students load apps and bookmarks.)
o laptops
o ipods
o tablets
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Other Items
o 1 guitar
o 1 piano
o 8gb flash drives for students
o 9x12 spiral 1-subject notebooks (for
8th graders)
o spiral sketch books for art class
o 1-inch black binders for orchestra and
band classes
Please DON'T bring:
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other clothes
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books for adults
Murchison International Refugee Fellowship
Sun Aug 30 | 7:30am - 12:00pm | 30 people | all ages until
10:30am, then adult only
Join us at Murchison as we come together as a community to
fellowship with International Refugee families that have relocated to our
neighborhood from their respective countries of origin. ACF will gather
donations from church families and friends and then allow the families to shop
for what they need. Further information on donations can be found in the ACFnw
Newsletter and will be communicated via the SOC Team Leader.
Note: All ages are welcome to help setup but children must
leave at 10:30am.
