Essco Safety Check has begun an annual tradition of giving back during the holiday season by providing FREE Holiday Toy Testing for Hopelink of Redmond.
Essco Safety Check is donating our XRF Testing Services to Hopelink of Redmond by providing toy testing this holiday season. We will be testing some of the toys they will be giving away (similar to Toys for Tots) for lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, antimony and other potentially harmful metals. We simply wish to help out this holiday season by ensuring that the toys Hopelink of Redmond is giving away to children do not contain any potentially harmful metals.
Hopelink serves the homeless and low income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities.
Hopelink is a non-profit corporation with 92% of all financial support going directly to help families in crises and preventing homelessness.
If you would like to donate to Hopelink, please visit http://www.hope-link.org/takeaction/volunteer
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Toys were everywhere when we arrived at Hopelink early Monday morning. All of the toys were donated by local people and businesses over the past year, and all will be distributed to children of low-income, even homeless families over the next two days.
Each toy is assigned a point value; each point represents approximately ten dollars. Every family that goes to Hopelink for the toy distribution is given 5 points per child. A personal shopper assists the family as they browse the newly created toy store (it is in the food distribution/pantry room of the charity) full of all the donated toys for several days.
Hopelink and other charities need support more than ever. Approximately 750 families were assisted by this branch of Hopelink in 2008, 1000 families were assisted this year (2009). Donations were down; demand is up…not a good combination!
Today I was part of a small community of volunteers, giving of their time to make one day of the year special for a family in need. My niece came down and spent over four hours helping turn a mass of toys into a toy store. There were high school students, parents, grandparents, all giving of their time.
Hopelink Toy Store 2009
All day long, donations of toys and food were arriving at the door. My way of giving back, well my company (Essco – Safety Check) was to test the toys for lead and other heavy metals. I’ve been testing their toys for almost two weeks in my spare time.
Overall, we (me, my brother and other volunteers) were able to test approximately 200 new toys and children’s products. Next year we will start earlier and hope to work with other organizations to give back and provide more, free toy testing, at this very special time of year.
Happy Holiday’s
Holiday toy testing has begun at Hopelink of Redmond, WA. There are boxes the size of pallets stuffed with toys for little girls and little boys. People and companies from around the area have donated new, unwrapped toys, to distribute to less fortunate children this holiday season.
Essco – Safety Check is providing free XRF testing of these toys for lead and other heavy metals.
This weekend we will continue testing toys in our office. On Monday, December 21st, 2009 we will be on-site testing as many toys as possible. Our hope is that we can provide up to a total of one thousand tests of toys by XRF testing.
Hopelink serves the homeless and low income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities.
Hopelink is a non-profit corporation with 92% of all financial support going directly to help families in crises and preventing homelessness.
If you would like to donate to Hopelink, please visit http://www.hope-link.org/takeaction/volunteer
Happy Holidays to everyone.
This holiday season, Essco Safety Check is giving back to the community and providing free holiday toy testing for lead and other heavy metals to Hopelink of Redmond, WA.
Today, I began XRF testing of some of the toys that will be given away by Hopelink. These toys for the most part are still in their original packaging. Because of this, I am seeking a volunteer to help me carefully open the packaging and then reseal the package after testing.
If you are available to assist during the daytime hours over the next two weeks and of course are local enough to get to our office, I would love some assistance. I’ll provide all the coffee or tea you want, I just want to test as many toys as time permits and unpacking, testing and resealing is taking longer than I had anticipated.
I visited Hopelink yesterday and they have hundreds of toys to be tested.
If you have some free time and want to help out our holiday charity testing effort, all you need to do is share some with me as I test toys for lead and other heavy metals.
I would greatly appreciate some help so I can test as many toys as possible.
Happy Holidays
Environmental Services & Solutions Corporation
Seth Goldberg
Essco Safety Check wants to help out this holiday season and what better way than to help people, businesses and charities “know what is in their environment.”
We are providing FREE Holiday Toy and Consumer Product Testing for anyone willing to visit our office, as well as assisting local charities.
We are donating our XRF Testing Services to Hopelink of Redmond, WA by providing FREE toy testing this holiday season. We will be testing the toys they will be giving away for lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, antimony and other potentially harmful metals. We simply wish to help out this holiday season by ensuring that the toys Hopelink of Redmond is giving away to children do not contain any potentially harmful metals.
Hopelink serves the homeless and low income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities. Hopelink is a non-profit corporation with 92% of all financial support going directly to help families in crises and preventing homelessness.
If you would like to donate to Hopelink, please visit http://www.hope-link.org/takeaction/volunteer
If you are interested in stopping by our office for some FREE Holiday Toy and Consumer Product Testing we are available Monday – Friday from 10 AM to 12 PM or by appointment from now until January 15th, 2010.
Happy Holidays!
