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FOOD
& SHELTER:
Having a safe place to live and meals on the table are things
most of us take for granted. A lot of our neighbors don't have
that luxury. A compassionate community can make a difference.
Published Thursday, December
25, 2003, in the San Jose Mercury News
Thanks
to Mercury News readers, all of the wishes in the 2003 Holiday
Wish Book will be fulfilled.
Here are the details:
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 Wish
26 • Monica Madrigal and her daughters
Aleecia, Sareena, Corrina, Angelina and Athena, San Jose: clothing,
household items. Donations also will provide essentials - linens,
mattresses, underwear, toiletries - for families seeking a new start
at area shelters, like Monica's. Nominating agencies:
Emergency Housing Consortium and InnVision, San Jose; Tri-City Homeless
Coalition, Fremont.
Wish 27 • Donations made possible today's
Christmas Day celebration and hot, sit-down meal with all the
trimmings for more than 600 low-income seniors at the St. James
Senior Center in downtown San Jose. Nominating agency:
St. James Senior Center Advisory Council, San Jose.
 Wish
28 • Women and children who have fled
abusive relationships to find safety and solace at shelters will
receive pajamas and other clothing, storybooks, stuffed toys, grocery
and drugstore gift certificates, bus passes. Nominating agencies:
Asian Women's Home and Next Door, San Jose; Shelter Against
Violent Environments (SAVE), Fremont; Support Network for Battered
Women, Mountain View.
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 Wish
29 • Grace Mata, a blind volunteer, San
Jose: omputer and software that will read grocery bar codes.
Donations also will provide supplemental groceries for low-income
seniors and thousands of hot meals to shut-ins and the disabled.
Nominating agencies: Meals on Wheels programs
in Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties;
Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.
 Wish
30 • Donations will help the Georgia
Travis Center in San Jose, a daytime respite and drop-in
center for homeless and at-risk women and children, build an
indoor playground at its new facility. Nominating agency:
InnVision, San Jose.
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