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. Any other non-General Service Conference Approved Literature will not be distributed.
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 the names of the hospitals, treatment centers, and institutions will not be listed.
For the months of June and July (time between Valleywide H&I monthly meetings) literature went to:
Jails and prisons; Hospitals and treatment centers;
Big Book – 12 cases = 240 books Big Book – 31 cases = 620 books
12X12 – 10 cases = 200 books 12X12 – 12 cases = 240 books
Pocket Big Book – 1 cases= 40 books Pocket Big Book – 1 cases= 40 books
Spanish Big Book – 2 cases= 40 books As Bill Sees It – 1 cases= 20 books
Spanish 12X12 – 2 cases= 40 books SRI Meeting Lists = 530 lists
AA in Prison – 2 cases= 40 books Area Meeting Lists = 124 lists
Daily Reflections – 1 cases= 40 books
Area Meeting Lists = 30 lists
Math for money distributed through distribution of literature and meeting lists;
860 Big Books $6.23 each = $5357.80
220 12X12s $5.74 each = $2525.60
80 Pocket BBs $3.28 each = $ 262.40
80 Spanish Big Books $6.23 each = $ 498.40
80 Spanish 12X12s $5.74 each = $ 459.20
40 AA in Prisons $1.85 each = $ 74.00
20 As Bill Sees It $6.23 each = $ 124.60
40 Daily Reflections $6.77 each = $ 270.80
530 SRI Meeting Lists $1.00 each = $ 530.00
154 Area Meeting Lists $1.25 each = $ 192.50
Total = $10295.30
Additionally, 120 meeting lists were used to pay for our rent for the two monthly meetings totaling $120.00.
Thank you for the opportunity to be of service,
Aaron B, Valleywide H&I, PO Box 80126, Phoenix, AZ 85060-0126