Tent City is always in need of: hand sanitizer, duct tape, tarps, sleeping bags, blankets, Theraflu, cold meds, Tums and AAA batteries. If you would like to donate these things to Tent City, ARAS can deliver them.

ARAS African Bike Drive will be held in the spring of 2012 at which time used bikes and bikes parts will be needed along with volunteers to help prepare the bikes for shipment to Ghana Africa. Consider organizing a used bike collection event at your school, neighborhood, work or place of worship. Volunteers with trucks are also needed to pick up donations before the event.

ARAS Fundraising Garage Sale will be held in Sammamish WA on Saturday Sept 10th. Please consider donating any of your unwanted but in good condition household treasures to us. Volunteers needed to set up and price items on Sept 9th and help with the sale on Sept 10th.

The ARAS Team is always looking for volunteers who enjoy interior decorating and would like to help prepare the ARAS apartment at the Y Villages in Redmond WA when a new transitional family moves in.

Sorting thousands of donated clothing items requires many helping hands. Let us know if you would like to help with this project.

All eastside cities around the Seattle area are involved in a month long food drive starting Sept 24th through Oct 22nd. ARAS will be working with the city of Sammamish during the drive as well as securing and distributing food throughout the year. During this drive, volunteers are needed at local grocery stores every Saturday to collect food donations, and help is needed to sort food at storage for the next several months. This is a great volunteer group project.

This year’s Harvest Festival will be Saturday Nov 19th in Bellevue WA. ‘Two Men and a Truck – Movers Who Care" has generously donated its services in transporting donated items to the Harvest Festival. At 4pm on Friday November 18th volunteers are needed to move donated items out of storage so the movers can load the items into their truck in Sammamish WA. On November 19th hundreds of volunteers are needed to serve donated clothes, books, toys and groceries to families in need. If you are a licensed hair stylist or massage therapist please consider donating your talent to this day of giving.

New toys are needed for the Harvest Festival. Do your children have new toys they have never used and would like to donate to a less fortunate child? Or please consider holding a toy drive at your club, school, place of worship, neighborhood or work place. Donated toys are needed by Nov 7th.