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The Allied Spouses Club Welfare Committee uses the proceeds from the International Charity Bazaar and other fundraisers to provide food and material support to 21 diverse, needy organizations. It also pays for a teacher in an after school care program in a very poor part of downtown Naples.

Money is not given to the recipients; instead, the Welfare Committee issues funds to volunteers who take care of individual charities. Volunteers shop regularly for foodstuffs, medical supplies and other needed items. They buy food for soup kitchens; support two children's homes; provide food for a handicapped men's home; and assist in a retreat for young men recovering from addiction. Volunteers also support two centres that provide before- and after-school care and meals for children who would otherwise be on the street.

Following is the September 2008 list of Allied Spouses Club supported charities:

DORMITORIO PUBLICO Via Duomo
A hostel for homeless people where the sisters and volunteers give dinner, a bed, a shower and breakfast to 100 men and 20 women. We provide food and supplies.
SISTERS OF CALCUTTA Via Tribunale / Via Duomo
Five nuns look after 20-25 homeless, often mentally handicapped or sick men. They visit about 200 poor families in Spaccanapoli, one of the poorest quarters in Naples, and distribute baby food and cleaning supplies to them once a month. In addition, 150-200 lunches each day are provided for the destitute. We donate food for the lunches and baby food for distribution.
SISTERS OF MERCY Marianella
Seven sisters from the order of the Sisters of Calcutta provide a refuge for up to thirty women and give food medicine and clothing to almost 500 families. Our help consists of food and supplies.
SANTA MARIA DEL CARMINE ALLA CONCORDIA Spanish Quarter
This is a church in the Spanish Quarter of Naples that provides food for 24 very poor families and/or families where a parent is in prison or addicted to drugs. We give them food.
SAN FRANCISCAN MENSA Mergellina
This mensa (soup kitchen) provides a meager lunch, daily to the poor and to street people. We provide extra food to supplement the lunches they serve.
FIGLIE DELLA CARITA Mergellina
This Convent in Mergellina provides many services to homeless and destitute people including many refugees and the elderly. We give food toward lunches, which they provide for 100 people per day.
CENTRO LAILA Castelvolturno
This is a large home in Castelvolturno where a family cares for 45 children, both Italian and immigrant who are in grave economic conditions. Centro Laila provides a friendly family environment and we help with the food.
MISSION CASTELVOLTURNO Castelvolturno
The Mission offers a day care center for the children of street people and prostitutes. Volunteers care for 15 to 20 young children and babies providing them breakfast and a hot lunch. We give whatever is needed to help.
SAINT ARTEMA Monterusciello
A church in Monterusciello that is trying to keep children off the streets and give them an alternative to the Camorra.
SAN PAOLO Fuorigrotta
A church in Fuorigrotta where we help the poor make ends meet.
SUORE DI CARITA DEL ASSUNZIONE Spaccanapoli
Eight nuns look after needy families in times of family crisis and severe illness. Our assistance helps provide an extra teacher for children with learning disabilities.
VILLA DELLE ROSE Lago Patria
A home where 25 handicapped men live, many of whom are in wheelchairs. We shop with them for food and supplies.
PARADISO DEI BAMBINI Vomero
A Children's home in Vomero caring for boys and girls 3 to 18 years who have been taken from home by the courts in situations of abuse or neglect. On weekends, they visit their parents or go to foster homes.
SAN GENNARO Via Domitiana
Priests and volunteers provide health services, clothing and lunches to the homeless.
SAN TARCISIO Via Ponti Rossi
This is a soup kitchen, above Piazza Cavour, where we provide meat to supplement their daily lunches.
CRESCERE INSIEME Sanita
This is a half way house for drug addicts. We buy food for their meals. There is a rigorous program each day of gardening, looking after chickens and working in workshops. The young men or boys are brought each morning and collected each evening by their parents, up and down the 160 steps! There is medical supervision of this vigorous attempt to break the drug cycle.
DOPOSCUOLA S. GIUSEPPE CALASANZIO Via Forea
Situated near Piazza Cavour in a very poor part of Naples, this doposcuola provides a place for volunteers to help 80-100 children with their homework and keep them off the streets. We provide school supplies twice a year and also food parcels for Christmas.
CRISIS CARE Monterusciello
Rita provides food and supplies for very needy families in Monte Rusciello. These are families with small children and babies with no support from the government or absent fathers.
NAPULE CASA FAMILIARE Capodimonte
This family home consists of two apartments, with seven children in each, where nuns take care of the children in family-style surroundings. We shop with the nuns for food, medicines and supplies.

International Charity Bazaar

October 16th and 17th, 2009
JFC NATO Community Center