Service Projects and Activities- providing lunches for local Habitat for Humanity events
- cosponsor of a DCYF Foster Family Christmas party providing books for all the foster children
- supporting a nurse practitioner's trip to Haiti
- providing book bags to new parents in Tamworth
- participating in fund raising cancer walks
- continuing our "Backpack Project" which provides backpacks and school supplies to newly placed foster children
- providing pajamas and other personal items to Starting Point (program for battered women and children)
- continuing our "Helping Hands Program" offering services to county residents in need.
If you too are interested in helping with these service projects as well as enjoying the friendship of a wonderful group of women, please email us at carrollcountyaltrusa@yahoo.com.
About Carroll County Altrusa
We are a non profit community service organization which was chartered in May of 2006. Our 27 members come from the towns of Conway, Tamworth, Freedom, Madison, Sandwich, Moultonboro and Ossipee. We meet the 2nd Monday of each month at Runnells Hall in Chocorua Village beginning at 6 pm and enjoy a light supper prepared by our members. Each meeting usually features a program or speaker and a business meeting during which we plan and prepare for our service projects.
Interested in learning more? Contact us at: carrollcountyaltrusa@yahoo.com
Carroll County Altrusa is part of Altrusa International, which was founded in 1917 to provide service groups to families and communities when record numbers of women went to work during World War I. Check out the Altrusa website to learn more about the national service projects we support, such as Camp Safe Haven summer camp for children who live with HIV.
