Good afternoon, Vets Community!
I want to personally thank you for all that you've done to contribute to my little organization NY Loves PR and to the Hurricane Irma & Maria Relief Efforts by the the Mayor's Office . As of today, NY Loves PR was able to help over 30 individual families in Puerto Rico that lost essentially everything, as well as an all girls orphanage in Aguadilla - Hogar Regazo de Paz - and we are sending out more shipments this week.
We are so proud of Zuleika, and happy to have such a generous person on our staff. All of our teachers jumped on board when Zuleika brought up the idea of doing a Kids For Kids Hurricane Relief Project. I put up a picture on our google+ page, but I can also add more to our Facebook page. Here are some more photos of our children decorating the water bottles - it became a really fun activity and the parents were glad we did it as well.
The children and teachers at Lehman College Child Care Center are working with Lehman Life and the Lehman College Library to raise funds to purchase books for a school on the island of Barbuda. We are sponsoring a 75/25 raffle, guessing the time Imagine teacher Filex will run his first full marathon in NYC this November.
We are very pleased to welcome Bernard Asanya and the children and teachers from Garden of Hope (Mobjap) Kenya into our Imagine, Kids for Kids family. Benard is the Founder and Director of Garden of Hope (GOH/ MOBJAP) in the Kibera slums. He started GOH in 2011 with only 9 kids- 4 orphans and 5 vulnerable. He rented a room that was also used as a church. He partitioned the room using polythene bags to create different classrooms. Fast forward to 2015, his center had 216 kids. Today there are 316. The children from Newark and Mobjab will look forward to an exciting year as Pen Pals.
The kids and teachers not only planted flowers, they built a fence. How smart is that?!!
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
