We are all set for summer! Yay!

We had a great day for donations! Thanks so much to Andrew Black and MetLife for holding a food drive for Helping Hands! We now have enough to take care of all of our kids over summer school. We even have enough to start the school year in August! Thanks so much for all of your support and donations over the last several months. It's been such a blessing to see how much the people of Crystal City are willing to give! Have a great summer, and keep our Helping Hands kids in your prayers!

Summer School!!

Thanks so much for checking in!  As we close out the school year (only 3.5 days left!) we are very excited and blessed with the results of the last several months.  Since launching this program in November, our community has stepped up and provided for these children every single week!  It's been amazing to see donations flow in week afer week, and we are so blessed that we are a part of Crystal City, and that we have all decided together that we will not allow children in our community to go hungry.  Thank you! 

This Thursday, after school, we are packing bags for summer school.  Our goal (a really big goal) is to have all bags packed, for all four weeks of summer school, at the end of this week.  That's a total of 84 bags-complete with 3 meals and 2 snacks for each weekend day-at the end of this week!  We have a lot to be thankful for.  We have had many weeks where there have  been an abundance of donations, and we've been able to save those donations to use for summer school. We know that vacations, fewer kids, and many other factors may come in to lower donations during summer school.  We would love to end the regular school year knowing we have enough to provide for these kids during the month of June!  Following are some of the things we need in order to make that happen:

Ravioli
Cereal
Granola Bars
Breakfast Bars
Fruit cups
Pudding
Peanut Butter/Cheese Crackers
Tuna
Soup
Mac n Cheese
Ritz Crackers

If you would like to donate for summer school, please bring your items to Crystal City Elementary by Wednesday afternoon.

Thanks so much!!

Ready for Summer!

Only two weeks left of school!  With the end of the  year being so close, we are focusing on preparing for summer.  We are going to continue to provide for the Helping Hands kids who attend summer school, and, and our goal is to have enough by the end of the school year to provide for all four weeks of summer school-a pretty big goal!  With your help, we can end the school year knowing that we have enough.  Following are items we need in order to make that happen:

ravioli
 tuna
soup
spaghetti o's
 mac  and cheese
 granola bars
breakfast bars
 peanut butter or cheese crackers 
cereal
plastic squeezable jelly
 fruit cups.  

Donations can be dropped off at the elementary school.  Thanks so much for all you've done all year, and for helping us prepare for the next several weeks!