International Chapel Charity Council ......Serving those who serve others....... List of SHAPE Charities currently known to be supported, as of June 2012 (Changes or Updates? Please email to: [email protected])

1. Société des Soeurs de Saint-François de Sales, a.s.b.l., Leuze (~ St. Vincent de Paul) Action:: Non perishable food through HEART box & Share-A-Meal at Christmas Run by a group of Salesienne Sisters and retired volunteers, this ASBL helps the elderly, the poor and the handicapped. SHAPE has supported them since 1988; it was one of the first charities supported through the “Share a Meal (SAM)” Appeal, now in its 27th year. They also run a Thrift Shop that sells our donations of used clothes and household items whose proceeds buy more food for their ‘Alimentation Room’ (or Food Bank as it is often known). Donations can be placed in the HEART box in SHAPE GB, which is picked up and delivered each Wednesday by Tommy Temple. 2. No 1186486 Entraide et Solidarité Protestante, en abrégé ( E.So.P), Cuesmes Action: Share-A- Meal at Christmas Helped by the Protestant Church in Mons, this ASBL offers options to the poor and the homeless. Volunteer-run, they operate a Thrift Shop, offer emergency assistance and help with documentation to apply for Government support. They host workshops to find employment, learn French or how to cook the most nutritious meals with less! E.So.P has also been one of the recipients of the Christmas Share a Meal (SAM) Appeal. In addition, seasonally volunteers will come to your home to have your gardens planted, weeded, watered and harvesting. For the harvest, a portion is kept for E.So.P’s food Bank recipients, with a portion, given back to you in thanks! 3. L’Utopie, La Louviere (formerly Poor Clares) Action: Share-A- Meal at Christmas This organization supports 400 families each month with some food assistance from the government, but utilities are paid from fundraising mail outs to the local community. They offer a Food Bank, emergency shelter, free clothing/small furniture, cooking classes and work a large garden. We support them through the Share a Meal (SAM) Appeal at Christmas. 4. Le Resto du Cœur de Mons, Mons This charity is large and from our information, has more Belgian community support. They offer an emergency shelter, hot meals, run a Thrift Shop, assistance for Government programs, showers and access to washing machines. The German Christmas Market Council supports them with a monetary donation. Food left over from banquets can be dropped off; we will be visiting them in 2012. 5. L’Ouvriers du Cœur, Leuze Action: Share-a-Meal at Christmas & will pick up furniture if more than 1 piece This organization supports 120 families each month with food assistance from the government. Run entirely by retired volunteers they offer a unique Food Bank, where monies raised from their Thrift Shop buys food at Colruyt at a discount. This discounted price is passed along to those for those to buy it as well through food donations, they offer support to those without much money.

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6. ASBL Avec Vous Ensemble, Mons ACTION: Non Perishable food, clothing, New fridge (March 2012) This Soup Kitchen opened in a single-wide house in February 2011, and today often serves 30 hot meals a day (coffee, day old bun, homemade bowl of soup), when its open 0930-1530, Monday – Friday to those in need. Volunteer-run by a retired Polish woman and her friends, SHAPE donates non perishable food through the HEART Box and in the last week of each month, any leftovers are bagged given one per family. They are currently providing assistance to secure housing or social assistance, and will accept donations of used clothing although space is limited. Plans are underway this summer for a “renovation” project with the 39th Signal Battalion to restore 2 rooms to be used for storage and counselling by a retired social worker. March 2012, IC3 volunteered at Viva Las Vegas, raising 650 € that purchased a new fridge. 7. Aide due Tiers Monde, France ACTION: Household items, blankets/towels, medical supplies ATM is run by an order of Sisters/Brothers of Charity in France. Our contact, Sister Anne picks up the bigger donations from Tommy Temple’s Charity garage to sell at flea markets (Brocantes) to help them buy used sea containers (or if the items are relevant may be kept) to fill for different mission projects in over 27 different countries by fellow Sisters/Brothers. In 2012, the containers/items are helping to build a school in Cameroon. Children’s Home’s in Belgium are orphanages, foster care or a combination of both. Subsidies from the ‘Ministry of French Speaking Community’ provide the basics but the Home relies on private donations to give the children a better life, such as clothing, school supplies or speciality items, such as duvets, pillows, towels etc. 8. ASBL Le Foyer Home Bethleem, Paturage (15 children) This charity is one of Tommy Temple’s oldest that has been supported by SHAPE for over 20 years. Children are sent here as young as 18 months through the authority of the Juvenile Court or Social Care Centre. Regular support is provided by: a) Monthly: SHAPE’s Mary Queen of Peace Catholic Parish, where a family sponsors a child and provides a birthday/Christmas gift, as well the Parish identifies needs; in April 2012, each child received a new bathrobe/towel. b) Each year from Sept--May: The Spanish Ladies Association delivers milk/non perishable food from their VAQUITA food drive, as well fund needed items, such as school supplies. c) Sep 2011-May 2012, the Protestant Women of the Chapel (PWOC) collected fresh fruit/vegetables once a month and organized a spring and Winter Clothing Drive. As well a work project called “Weed the Field Day” happened last fall that cleared a large area for new chicken coops and a new vegetable garden to be harvested this fall. d) December 2011: Tommy with Sint Nicholas, together with the Spanish Ladies Association, who provided the meal, and the Canadian Military Family Resource Centre, provided the gifts. As well, the Youth Group from the International Baptist Church hosted a Christmas party too! e) Spring 2011: the US Girl Scouts’ Overseas coordinated the purchase of a new bike and equipment. f)

April 2012: US Boy Scouts of America, helped Eagle Scout, Alex Bub build a bike shelter.

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9. Le Pastel Orphanage, Nouvelles (17 children) One of four homes housing children aged 3 – 16 years where there home life is no longer safe or their parents can no longer care for them. One a monthly basis, the German community supports this Home by providing gifts for birthday’s and Christmas, as well as inclusion in Parish activities (Catholic and Protestant.) Another community group, led by Tanya Herpich, raise funds in selling beer or in a past SHAPE Theater production to help pay for the cabinets/appliances for a new kitchen being built. Lastly, the German Kristkringle Market gives a donation each December. To donate see: www.supportlepastel.net/The_Project.html). 10. Home of Don Bosco, Petite Hornu (15 boys + Community Youth Day Centre) There are many Don Bosco homes across the world, supported by the Catholic Church. Priests, serve as Directors and offer orphans (not Foster care) a home until they are 18 years of age when additional government support ceases. This is considered a charitable organization in Belgium or an ASBL, and Father's Victor and Pierre also try to teach the boys trades, like fixing bicycles or construction to give them a source of income when they leave. This Home is also very self sufficient and boys learn how to tend a large vegetable garden, they recently learned how to make apple cider from a large apple tree on site, raise rabbits for meat, chicken’s for eggs, as well raises bees, whose honey sells in the local market to help with their expenses. December 2011: Families with the US National Honor Society purchased gifts together with Tommy Temple and Sint Nicholas were given to each child. May 2012: Hosted by the USAF Top III, students from the National Honour Society (and many others whose help was invaluable) hosted a football match and BBQ, to raise awareness of the older boys’ upcoming Mission trip to Rwanda. The Priests raise funds for the boys to travel to a Don Bosco orphanage, where in the past the boys have helped build a school and a chapel for the community. Ten years ago, Tommy Temple brought a call to SHAPE for sewing machines - he got 1000 all in pieces! A retired Singer employee came forward and made 600 working that got shipped to Rwanda. Community members were trained and now not only provide clothes for their own families but have a commodity to sell at the local market which allows them to buy food and help support the orphanage's expenses In June 2012, the IC3 will participate in an evening fundraiser called "Viva Las Vegas 2" with the “Out of SHAPE” band (through the invitation of Alan Petrie and his wife Robbi Nelson-Petrie) who with Tommy Temple help to sponsor Carine Ashurst walk 200km on The Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James). Carine is donating all monies we raise to the Don Bosco Home for Boys to help with their expenses when the older boys to go back to the Rwandian DB Home to build a shelter that will house those sewing, be protected from the sun and the dust! 11. Le Gai Logis (40 children) IC3 will be planning a visit to this Home this year as we are just learning of the support our community gives. For many years, members of the UK community donate clothing as well as give a monetary donation from the British Fete held each summer. Lasagna’s and tiramisu were seen being made at the SHAPE Chapel by the Italian ladies one afternoon for their children, and the Norwegian Chaplain, tells us they help there too! This past Christmas, an American lady working on SHAPE has for 10 years organized a Christmas party for the children; in early December 2011, the first IC3 fundraiser was held with the “Out of SHAPE” band which raised €450 that helped pay for their gifts. The four band members then donated an afternoon to play at the Home’s Children’s Christmas party with Santa Claus.

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12. CEPS à Mons, Ghlin (120 children in residence with hearing/sight and some autistic) Initially known from the German Kirstkringle Christmas Market Council, they give (December 2010 & 11) a donation that is used to fund a swimming program. December 2011: IC3 with four community groups (Junior Girl Scouts Overseas, US Homeschoolers Group, Calvary Baptist Church and a US Navy military member) organized gifts for 110 children/young adults, together with CH Patrick Lublink (CAN) and CH Beltz (US) and his two teens, joined us with sweets at the children’s Christmas party. CEPS also have 3 schools that include children who live with their parents but deal with the same challenges. IC3 recently had two donations of English children’s books which were gladly accepted for their English classes in the Primary School. In addition, the US Homeschoolers group ran a “Warm Clothing Drive” this past February 2012. 13. La Fermette, Ath (40 children) This children’s Home has been supported by the USAG Schinnen for 45 years, in the year the Garrison began. Three events a year are planned: Sint Nicholas (gifts/party), Egg-stravaganza (April) and Trunk or Treat. 14. Cite de l'Enfance Orphanage, Mons This Children’s Home has been supported by members of the SHAPE Battalion for two years now. Activities are planned four times a year with gifts for the children at Christmas. 15. L’école des Devoirs du Biezet (Centre de Soutien Famililial, Juridique et Scolaire) This is an after school homework assistance club for children from lower income families. Often, Tommy Temple needs a community group to purchase school supplies for mid August. December 2011, members of the Top III provided new toys for each child with Sint Nicholas. 16. Ecole Maternelle et Primaire spécialisée St. Gertrude A.S.B.L., Brugelette (Children’s Home) A large school for mentally and physically disabled children or ones with social problems. A Christmas donation from the German Kristkringle Market finances a horse-riding therapy for the autistic children. 17. Le Kangourou, location withheld (Emergency housing – max 9 months) This House is provided for women (sometimes men) who have had to leave abusive situations, are homeless or have psychiatric problems. They also run a Thrift Shop where unused clothing donations helps raise funds for extracurricular activities for the children. August 2011: Youth from Club Beyond did a work project, weeding the play area, cleaning the kitchen and even preparing a room for a new family. Monthly Sep – May: Two ladies from the MQoP Parish, have been going once a month to interact with the mothers offering a cooking lesson to showing how to help with colic with infant massage. This program will continue in the fall. December 2011: for the first time, Jaye-Lynn Stapleton from the 39th Signal Battalion FRG took an evening meal, and gift of new pyjamas and candy filled stockings for the children, with Sint Nicholas. December 2011: the SIWC gave generously from those attending the NMRs December Christmas lunch, with donations of diapers and children toiletries. April 2012: IC3 at the “Ladies Night Out” SIWC evening event, held a fundraiser for the purchase of a new clothes dryer. The washing machine was donated by the King Leopold 1st Lodge Nr 3, which is an English-speaking Free and Accepted Mason Lodge with many SHAPE members, that is located in Mons.

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18. St. Alfreds, Casteau (Home for mentally and physically handicapped adults) At Christmas time, the MQoP Parish select a name of one of the residents and buy them their requested gift. Lasagnes and soft desserts are taken to a party that the young members, who are receiving Confirmation the same year, host. Together with the gifts, the teens help serve food and attend a dance party with the residents. 19. Little Sisters of the Poor, Charleloi (Spring) Normally during the month of the World Day of Prayer, year, Tommy Temple gives the Sisters a donation to help the elderly in their care who fall under the poverty line. 20. Sick Children from Chernobyl (Children brought to Belgium for medical treatment – 2nd generation) This special summer project has been happening for the past 26 years; Tommy Temple together with Dr. Pierre Guisset, President of A.S.B.L. Marina Sacha Charity, offered opportunities for SHAPians to help with travel and lodgings expenses to bring in the sickest of the children, still suffering with illnesses born from the disaster, now living in orphanages in Belarus. Last year, SHAPE gave 2000 Euros, Top III organized a BBQ and a dip in the SHAPE Swimming pool, the Protestant Chapel’s Vacation Bible School collected non perishable food for their meals at the gite, and the US Scouts (Boys & Girls) and Cub Troops, with help from Grandma’s Attic, provided three pairs of needed shoes for each child. As of May 2012, obtaining a VISA is presenting a new problem, although we are looking at some options...more to follow. 21. Share a Meal Christmas (SAM) Appeal (Food Box Program for Families in Difficulty at Christmas) SAM, is a separately run Group 2 Activity which allows it to fundraise on SHAPE. SAM is operated under the general supervision of the SHAPE International Chapel Staff Chaplain and the authority of the Commander, Headquarters Support Group (HSG). The current IC3 Coordinator also sits as a Charity Liaison Representative as the conduit between the charities who give the names of the families and the Council. SAM began 27 years ago, with Tommy Temple and a Canadian teacher who approached him wanting to give personalized food boxes to the poor. Tommy, working as the Ecumenical Charity Liaison, and ran a tinned food drive for Food Banks run by the Sisters of Charity, and they delivered donations by car pool! He got the names of 10 families and together they delivered them – hence, SAM was born! This past December, 200 families (50 from each of four charities) were supported. For more info, contact the SAM Sec at [email protected] or to [email protected]. 22. L’Arche de Noé Maisieres (Animal Shelter): Action: cat litter, cat or dog food, open disinfectant/cleaners e.g. as Mr. Clean (Mr. Propre) or Dettol This Shelter currently houses 70 dogs (large and small) and 30 cats. This “not for profit” is not subsidized and sits on a private property; it has a “no-kill” policy. Incredibly clean, they have stringent adoption guidelines offering animals that are fixed, vaccinated and passport chipped. Volunteers are always needed to walk, feed the animals or clean cages. Our IC3 contact plans on volunteering (some French is needed as little English is spoken) and he can be contacted to arrange a delivery of a donation – especially any cleaners would be most appreciated.