Community Service

We, at the LVDC, believe strongly in service to our community. Therefore, we encourage you to support the following organizations:

Habitat for Humanity
No experience necessary!!!
I can't tell you how rewarding this is. You must try it yourself.
All equipment and instructions are provided.
For more information or to sign up: www.habitatlehighvalley.org

Second Harvest Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley and NE Pennsylvania
Second Harvest Food Bank distributes about 1/2 million pounds of food and other grocery products each month. Nearly 200 member agencies rely on the food bank to help them meet their participants' needs.
For more information:
2045 Harvest Way
Allentown, PA 18104-6793
Phone: 610-434-0875
Web site: www.feedingamerica.org

Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley - The mission of the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley, Inc., is to improve the quality of life in the Lehigh Valley by building a community in which all people have access to economic opportunity, the ability to pursue that opportunity, and a voice in the decisions that affect their lives.
Web Site: www.caclv.org

The Caring Place - The Caring Place is a youth development center that reaches out to youths in the inner city who may be in jeopardy of being entangled in the everyday life of drugs, violence, unemployment and hopelessness by providing programs and activities designed to enable young people to overcome the pressures and disadvantages of their environment.

International Organizations:
Red Cross - The American Red Cross responds to nearly 70,000 disasters each year. Currently, they are collecting donations for the relief efforts in Haiti. Locally, please donate your time, blood and money to help your neighbors and friends when disater strikes.

Amnesty International - Amnesty International's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.

ONE - The campaign to end poverty.... Americans of all beliefs and every walk of life, united to help make poverty history.

Water Aid - WaterAid works in 17 countries providing water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world's poorest people.