2012 shelter dinners have been scheduled. We will be preparing dinners every 4th Saturday of the month for the year 2012. Happy New Year everyone and thank you so much for your extraordinary work in 2011!

We will be serving approximately 200 shelter residents & homeless for the hypothermia program from December through March.

This is a Dast2Dast organized event to prepare and serve meals at the Bailey's Cross Road Shelter. We need volunteers to prepare meals and/or serve.

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Dear volunteers,

We will be assisting Volunteers of America in Bailey's Crossroads Community Shelter in their Hypothermia Prevention Program.

Last year we helped them feed approximately 200 homeless each month during the Hypothermia Prevention Program and this year they again need the help of the Community to assist with the people most vulnerable to the outside elements, our homeless populations here in Fairfax County.

2011 shelter dinners have been scheduled. We will be preparing dinners every 4th Saturday of the month for the year 2011. Happy New Year everyone and thank you so much for your extraordinary work in 2010!

We were filmed on 06/26/2010 at the shelter while serving and then interviewed by Mahshid Nadiry at Voice of America and aired live on 07/02/2010.

VAFA Animal Shelter is the first animal shelter in Iran and is located in the town of Hashtgerd, about an hour and a half west/northwest of Tehran on the road to Ghazvin. It was put together with the hard work of Ms. Fatemeh Motamedi who has a deep love for animals of all shape and size and donated her land and organized the building of the shelter with her own funds. At present, the shelter is under the supervision of Ms. Lida Esna-Ashari and is run by a group of devoted volunteers and caring veterinarians who donate much of their services.

I recommend this book called "When Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chodron which I found to be very useful for these times of turbulence and uncertainty in our lives: