Showing posts with label Yellow Bus Summer Camp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yellow Bus Summer Camp. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
Friday, June 8, 2012
Vote for us on GOOD's "Doing GOOD this Summer"
Vote here: http://maker.good.is/projects/faceswithoutplaces
Overview of Idea
Our Summer Camp is provided for children ages 5-12
experiencing homelessness. Two buses pick up children from 10 shelters,
motels and neighborhood stops in Greater Cincinnati. During the 8-week
camp children will be improving their reading and math skills and
participate in enriching experiences.
The Specifics: What will the $5,000 fund?
Support will enable us to help children experiencing
homelessness to improve their health, build their minds, and expand
their horizons; because access to education and enrichment opportunities
are often a challenge. Specifically, funding will be used to provide
healthy snacks and meals, outfit children with clothing and supplies
needed, and give children worthwhile experiences in their own community.
www.faceswithoutplaces.org
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Faces without Places Yellow Bus Summer Camp
Faces
without Places (FwP) is pleased to announce that they will be hosting their
pilot program, The Yellow Bus Summer Camp 2012.
This year the Yellow Bus Summer Camp will be held at the Old
Hoffman School at 3060 Durrell Ave.
For the past
14 years, FwP has collaborated with community partners to host a summer program
for children experiencing homelessness aged 5-12. However, this summer, FwP will be hosting
their own program as they have identified it as an initiative that they want to
support.
FwP is a
non-profit that was created in 1998 to keep children experiencing homelessness
connected to their education in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. During the last 14 years, FwP has raised over
1.5 million dollars for children experiencing homelessness in our city and has
provided the majority of the funding for the summer program. FwP has been the organization that provided
the funds for all of the life enriching opportunities that children
experiencing homelessness have been able to participate in as well as transportation,
staff and food.
The Yellow
Bus is continuing to move along and is going to be better than ever before, but
not without the help of our generous community members like you. In order to
continue to serve children experiencing homelessness, we need to provide many
supplies that will be for the children to use and keep.
Because we are going
out on our own, we need your help to get the supplies to make it a successful
summer, can you help us by providing:
- Deep Freeze
- Refrigerators
- Microwaves
- New swim suits for boys and girls (one pieces or modest tankinis) aged 5-12
- New flip flops for boys and girls aged 5-12
- New beach towels
- individually wrapped snacks
- juice boxes
- Cheerios cereal
- copy paper
- construction paper
- crayons
- markers
- pencils
- electric pencil sharpeners
- staplers & staples
- Epson 125 ink (black, cyan, magenta, & yellow)
- packing tape
- extension cords
- surge protectors
- New or gently used outdoor recreation equipment (basket balls, soccer balls, jump ropes, hula hoops, etc.)
- New or gently used board games
- Sunscreen
- Box fans
- Tissues
- Toilet paper
- Paper towels
- Paper plates
- Disposable cups
- Plastic silverware
- Large bottles of hand sanitizer
- New or gently used books for students aged 5-12
- Gift cards to Target and Wal-Mart to purchase clothing and swim suits
- Gift certificates to Kroger or Sam’s Club to purchase perishable goods
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