Orinda Junior Women's Club

At the Orinda Juniors Women’s Club April meeting, members came together to help package 1,800 reusable cloth masks for students and staff of Oakland Unified School District. The masks were produced by Junior member, Kristiana Tom, owner of Mask the Bay, who received a donation of 15 bolts of fabric from Orimono Imports. The support of a retired Oakland elementary teacher, Mrs. Penny Wong and her neighbors also contributed to this amazing effort.

Thank you to all of the Orinda Juniors who purchased, shipped and dropped off items and to those who came by to assemble 'Bunny Baskets' for the children staying at Family House at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. It was great to see so many of you - the baskets turned out great and will be such a special treat for the kids!

We are pleased to announce Youth Ink 2021 writing contest launches on Tuesday, December 1, 2020! The Youth Ink writing contest was created to support the literary arts among young people in the Orinda community, Youth Ink is open to all 6th, 7th, and 8th graders who live in Orinda or attend an Orinda school. Entries must be a story (fiction or non-fiction), poem, or other creative writing form; presented in English, and written specifically for the contest and without teache...r or parent involvement. Entries must be 750 words or less. Submissions will be evaluated on content, clarity, structure, and originality. Learn more and enter today! http://www.orindajuniors.org/2020//01/2021-youth-ink-opens/

Each year, the Orinda Junior Women's Club assembles and sells a unique holiday gift to raise money to support our philanthropies. This year the Juniors created a tea kit with loose leaf "gunpowder" green tea from the SF Herb Company and freshly harvested honey from Twin Bees Apiaries in Alameda along with a wooden stirrer. 50% of profits will go to Cal Fire Foundation and the rest will fund our other events such as STAND! against Domestic Violence and the Orinda middle scho...ol Youth Ink writing contest. To purchase a kit for $25, text or call 734-262-1218 for local porch pickup near downtown. We also have some of last year's peppermint salt scrub available for $10. Organic salt, oils and essential oil- simple all natural ingredients.

Thank you to all of the OJWC Members who helped to make this happen this weekend! http://www.orindajuniors.org/2020//06/holiday-fundraiser-2/

Thank you to Mask the Bay for donating 48 masks for our "boo kits" for Orinda seniors identified by The Orinda Association !!

Our sister club is having an online auction to support the Trinity center in WC and the START program at DVC

A local retired firefighter has created a fundraiser to gather new socks, underwear, toiletries, water, Gatorade, Ensure, cash and gift cards to deliver directly to shelters, fire victims, first responders affected by the LNU Fire, CZU Fire, SCU Fire. Please consider supporting this great cause!

The Orinda Junior Women’s Club was fortunate to be able to donate 50% of our holiday fundraising sales to help Orinda Restaurants bring meals to front line workers at the Hospitals, Police, Fire and Orinda Stores. https://www.gofundme.com/f/yehfa6-support-local-restaurants