Cooperation Tulsa

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN! You're invited to another Cooperation Tulsa bonfire party at Flat Rock community garden! This time we'll be having the bonfire after our usual Saturday workday. Bring a friend, bring a chair. Kids are welcome at your (parents) discretion. We'll get things started around 6pm and hang out til the fire dies. We can't wait to see you!

Tomorrow Free Free Forum will host its next talk centered around regenerative economics, featuring Eleanor Finley (whose work we table at every event) and the wonderful Camila Vergara. We hope you come out at 5:30pm at the OSU-Tulsa campus and visit with us!

🎉Successful Aid Distribution🎉

Today we purchased a replacement Birth Certificate for our neighbor Robbie! Robbie and I have known eachother for a few years now. In the past, Robbie has helped me work on my car and he helped me prep my garden last year as a member of Lucky Permaculture worker cooperative. He even came over to do extra work unpaid to make sure that my garden was ready for Spring. We are standing in front of a planter that Robbie helped build for me last year. So yesterday when he emailed Rita's Refuge to request Aid, I was delighted to be in a position to return the favor by distributing Aid to him. We completed the application together today when he came over to receive his Aid.

This is our community! We all need to take turns helping one another. "It takes a village..." does not just apply to raising children. "It takes a village" to keep adults stable as well. Sometimes we are the village in this situation and sometimes we are the one that needs the village.

Here is a description of the organization:

Rita's Refuge is a Sapulpa-based Direct Aid Organization dedicated to collecting contributions to be distributed as Aid for Homeless individuals and individuals at-risk of homelessness in the Sapulpa and Tulsa areas.

Our first effort is distributing Aid for replacement IDs, Driver's Licenses, and Birth Certificates. Often times missing IDs and Birth Certificates are the first barrier to gaining housing, healthcare, or financial assistance. Rita's Refuge seeks to fill this gap by using your contributions to make sure our neighbors can overcome this barrier.

You can sponsor a Standard ID/Driver's License for $30
You can sponsor a Real ID/Driver's License for $43.50
You can sponsor a Birth Certificate for $32.95

For information about applying for Aid, you or your Case Manager can send a request for aid to [email protected].

All monetary contributions go directly toward providing Aid for our neighbors, purchasing office supplies, and paying neccessary fees. Please make a contribution today!

Here is the link to contribute:

https://opencollective.com/ritas-refuge-fundraising

Picture: me and Robbie after the Aid Distribution.