Hope you're enjoying your summer! Ella, Tai and I just started volunteering at LA Family Housing, doing summer-campy activities with recently homeless children. LAFH has a Transitional Living Center in North Hollywood for homeless families who are working toward stability. Space is very tight, and kids have little to do and nowhere to go, so volunteers can bring summer camp to them.
We're also starting a Read to Succeed program. Regular reading sets off a chain reaction of intellectual development, improved grades, and confidence which can greatly impact a child's future. Because their families have had to focus on daily survival, most of these kids have never owned books or read for fun.
Would you like to help grow their love of reading? Here's how:
Read to Succeed needs
- Prizes for weekly Book Review raffles (not too large), e.g. toys, games, $5 gift cards
- Grand Prizes for the best book reviews of the summer
- Party supplies or ice cream (Kids who accomplish their reading goals get a parking lot movie party)
- Fun folks to read to children (any time)
Friday Fun Camp needs
- Messy Art Day - paintbrushes, roll of butcher paper, used adult t-shirts for coverup (kids don't have extra clothes to get splattered)
- CSI Science Day - fingerprint ink pad, footprint casting kit, toy magnifying glasses
You can also donate $ or help solicit businesses for supplies/donations!
If you have questions or are available to help, please call/email us.
Thank you!
Quynh, Ella, Tai
(818) 906-9970
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