The General Service Conference approved literature organized into piles at the back of the room is for the various Valleywide H&I Coordinators to distribute to the various hospitals, treatment centers, jails, and prisons throughout the Valley to the confined Alcoholics. If you chair an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in a hospital or institution where the attendees cannot get out to a regular meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous you will coordinate with your respective coordinator to get books inside.
Used and new Grapevine issues can be donated by homegroups and will go to confined alcoholics.
Since we make a literature order every other month for 2 months of distribution I had the breakdown of the money spent on literature on last month’s report. It is available online at www.vwhi.com if you were not here last month to get a hard copy. This month’s report will show you an example of where the literature is being distributed. In keeping with the 6th Tradition we will not list the names of the hospitals, treatment centers, and institutions we send books into.
For the month of April (time between Valleywide H&I monthly meetings) literature went to:
Hospitals and treatment centers;
Big Book – 15 cases = 300 books
12X12 – 5 cases = 100 books
SRI Meeting Lists = 400 lists
Jails and prisons;
Big Book – 9 cases= 180 books
12X12 – 6 cases= 120 books
Pocket Big Book – 2 cases= 80 books
Spanish Big Book – 3 cases= 60 books
Spanish 12X12 – 2 cases= 40 books
AA in Prison – 6 cases= 120 books
Daily Reflections – 2 cases= 80 books
SRI Meeting Lists = 50 lists
Area Meeting Lists = 20 lists
Math for money distributed through literature distribution;
480 Big Books $6.23 each = $2990.40
220 12X12s $5.74 each = $1262.80
80 Pocket BBs $3.28 each = $ 262.40
60 Spanish Big Books $6.23 each = $ 372.80
40 Spanish 12X12s $5.74 each = $ 229.60
120 AA in Prisons $3.28 each = $ 393.60
80 Daily Reflections $6.77 each = $ 541.60
450 SRI Meeting Lists $1.00 each = $ 450.00
20 Area Meeting Lists $1.25 each = $ 25.00
Total = $6528.20
Thank you for the opportunity to be of service,
Aaron B, Valleywide H&I, PO Box 80126, Phoenix, AZ 85060-0126