Campaigns
JANUARY - MARCH
Winter Survival Campaign
Statistically, WSWA’s budget-saving Winter Survival Campaign saves at least six lives each winter when our members mobilize to aid one another in preventing disasters, such as house fires caused by unsafe heating methods or fatalities from untreated illness, inadequate nutrition and shelter. Every year since our founding in 1975, we have been distributing food to hundreds of membership families in low-income communities and keeping members housed through individual advocacy.
Campaign for Affordable Electricity
As thousands of low-income workers face electricity shutoffs each month, for-profit investor-owned utilities reap enormous profits. WSWA members have mobilized to the California Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco to fight for affordable energy, an end to shutoffs and an end to utility profiteering at the working poor’s expense.
AUGUST- SEPTEMBER
Back-to-School Campaign
The expenses low-income working parents face for back-to-school clothes and supplies, medical exams for school entry and immunizations can break an already over-stretched budget. WSWA’s Back-to-School clothing and supply distribution can save WSWA membership families up to $500 – money that can be used to pay for rent, utilities, food and medicines these families will otherwise be forced to do without.
Campaign for Affordable Water
WSWA members and their allies are leading a campaign to achieve affordable water and end water shutoffs plaguing low-income families in the East Bay Area. WSWA members have mobilized to EBMUD hearings, demanding they “Serve the People, Not Wall Street.”
Children’s Safe & Sane Halloween Party
OCTOBER
WSWA's annual Children's Safe and Sane Halloween Party and chaperoned Trick-or-Treat for Service Workers is the first in a series of events organized by and for low-income workers and their families through the holiday season. Join the Halloween festivities! You can:
• Volunteer to coordinate games at the Halloween party
• Assist on the Trick-or-Treat for Service Workers
• Decorate for the event
• Host a Trick-or-Treat for Service Workers in your neighborhood
NOVEMBER - DECEMBER
Family Holiday Party and Holiday Food Basket Distributions
WSWA volunteers have created budget-saving programs for members to help other members meet seasonal needs such as holiday food basket distributions for Thanksgiving and Christmas time, holiday toy distributions to parents for their private family gift giving to their children and a membership Family Holiday Party every December..
