Second Spring Mutual Aid Sponsor a kit

The Second Spring Almanac

A season of arrivals

One kit, sown in the first week, before a house is a home.

Second Spring Mutual Aid packs welcome kits for families arriving in Clarkston, Georgia. Neighbors sponsor them, volunteers pack and carry them in — one sponsor to one kit, one kit to one household.

One sponsor to a kit · One kit to a household

In season, all year

Five things Clarkston keeps asking for

Arrivals do not follow a calendar. These are the five services we keep running, whichever week a family lands.

No. 01

Welcome kit sponsorship

One sponsor to one kit, packed against the list the household gives us.

No. 02

Rideshare

Volunteer drivers for the first clinic visit, the school office, the bank and the market run.

No. 03

English conversation circles

A weekly circle. No fee, no teaching required — conversation is the whole of it.

No. 04

Furniture & houseware pickup

A truck and an afternoon, collecting what a household needs in order to sit down.

No. 05

Weekly grocery fund

A standing fund for the first shop, bought fresh and bought to the family's own list.

The kit

What goes into a welcome kit

A kit is packed against the family's own list, not a standard box off a shelf. Four things go in — and one of them is an invitation.

Volunteers packing a welcome kit with bedding, pots and a kettle

Packing day: housewares from the pickup run, sorted by size and stacked by the door.

  1. A week of groceries

    Bought against the family's own list, out of the weekly grocery fund, so the first shop is fresh and familiar.

  2. Housewares for a bare kitchen

    Plates, pots, bedding, a kettle — whatever the furniture and houseware pickup has gathered that week.

  3. A ride, when a ride is the whole problem

    A volunteer driver for the first clinic visit, the school office, the market run, the bank.

  4. A standing invitation

    A seat at an English conversation circle, every week, no fee and no teaching required.

Not everything in a kit fits in the box.

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Take part

Wanted, this season

Not everything arrives in a box. These are the standing roles behind every welcome kit.

Wanted

Rideshare volunteers

Drivers for clinic days, school offices and the first errands of a new address. An hour at a time is plenty.

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Wanted

English conversation circles

Patient talkers for a weekly circle. No teaching required — conversation is the whole of it.

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Wanted

Furniture and houseware pickup

A truck, an afternoon, a good couch. We collect what a household needs in order to sit down.

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Wanted

The weekly grocery fund

A standing gift for the market run, so a kit's first week of groceries is bought fresh and to the family's own list.

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