The charity needs contributions to help ship donations to Louisiana
BLACKWOOD -- The team at the Unforgotten Haven is all heart and you know it from the moment you walk in their doors in Blackwood. The Unforgotten Haven is a nonprofit 501(c)3 charity and helps all those in need at no charge.
Their building at 100 S. Blackhorse Pike in Blackwood has helped thousands, in their only 20 months of being open, by feeding the homeless, assisting victims of house fires, collecting supplies for veterans, animal shelters, domestic violence victims and much more. They work in partnership with churches and other community organizations to help make the community a better place.
After seeing the recent flooding in Louisiana and the help needed, the "Haven team" decided to spring into action and started a collection for the victims. Donations of clothes, food, blankets, toiletries, pet supplies, diapers, formula, cleaning products, money and more were generously donated and filled a 27-foot truck in four days.
A few sponsors stepped up to help with some of the shipping costs such as the Garden State Rotary, Spartan World Wide, and C.M.I. and Holman Ford is renting the team a passenger van to drive down at a huge discounted rate. The Peter J. Haller Family Foundation will cover the cost to rent this 15 passenger van. They also have an anonymous donator that in the next 48 hours will match donations (up to $1,000) on the GoFundMe page for the trip.
This team, although they all have full-time jobs and are just volunteers, are ready to go camp out in Louisiana to do all they need to do to help. The only thing holding them back now is the rest of the money needed to ship all the extra donations they weren't expecting to receive.
For more information about the Unforgotten Haven visit, unforgottenhaven or follow them on Facebook. For more information on how you can help those in Louisiana visit: www.gofundme.com/2k2ry5m4.
This item submitted by Michele Gambone, The Unforgotten Haven.
