Vets Kids is happy to announce that the first Kids for Kids Friendship Ball was a great success! We had dancing, crafting stations, raffle prizes, children-baked cookies and beautiful artwork the children made especially for the event. Together we raised $531 for our Kids for Kids program! A very big THANK YOU to our Vets Kids community for attending and supporting the event, both with time and donations.
We made $378 at our Kids-for-Kids Bake Sale on Valentine's Day!!! The money goes toward a meal program at DFC School in Kenya. Thank you to all families who donated goodies and bought goodies!!
The students at Brooklyn Heights created this amazing video to advertise their Valentine's Day charity bake sale!
The DUMBO children collected a total of 53 toys for the children at Safe Horizon during their holiday toy drive! Thank you to everyone for your participation. It feels good to know we are bringing lots of smiles to children this holiday season.
A student makes his donation to our Safe Horizon Toy Drive.
Two little helpers share what the toy drive is all about.
The children at Vets Kids held a bake sale and collected donated yoga mats for the Veterans Yoga Project. Veterans Yoga Project is an educational and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the health and well being of military veterans and you can learn more about them at www.veteransyogaproject.org
Our new Imagine Kids for Kids t-shirts, modeled here by the adorable Passarelli brothers!!
Kids for Kids T-Shirts are now on sale; $10 child size, $12 adult size. These tees support our Kids for Kids connections around the world. Lend your support by picking up an order form from your Center Director today!
Through the Kids for Kids program, Imagine 2016 graduates are Skyping with their friends for the last time. It was a great year with shared books, tour of the centers and lots of dancing and music. Now, Bradley and his peers are "moving on up" to kindergarten. This September a new group of preschoolers are looking forward to beginning their pen pal relationships and making new friends with the children at FAFU.
April is our month to highlight Imagine's Kids for Kids program and celebrate everyday acts of kindness! This year we will be participating in THE KINDNESS CHALLENGE as a whole school community. This challenge is a campaign for each Imagine center to reach/complete 500 acts of kindness. What makes it even more awesome is that we will all have to work together to reach this goal! Every school made a video to challenge and encourage each other to take on this ambitious project.
One parent wrote :
"I think that it is pretty awesome that today at pre-school, Reed's class was skyping with kids in Kenya and learning how to say hi to them in their native language. It is an amazing world that my 3 year old child can speak to someone across the globe without any difficulty, and it is an amazing school to facilitate this and make it happen.'
June 2015, Lehman College Child Care Director Jaci Maurer and Catherine Angelet, the director at Jamaica Kids are off to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro at the end of the month to raise awareness and funds for our sister program FAFU in Nairobi, Kenya. We are excited to see them reach the top and then see them safely at the bottom.
Kickin' it for Kids was the 2015 annual FUN-raiser. The centers are setting up obstacle courses, kickball games, dance-athons and more to raise awareness about the importance of being active and staying healthy. Look for each centers delicious Imagine Power Bars, created by the kids for sale. All funds raised will go to help support our pen pal programs around the world.
