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on our March Event—Gifts for Children with Serious Illnesses
We made 30 decorated picture frames for the children of the Pediatric Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Unit at Duke University Hospital in honor of Beth Davidson's cousin Julien Mezey. Thank you to Beth Davidson and Madeleine Levin for coordinating, and to the children and parents that donated the supplies and worked together to assemble and decorate the frames.
Future Retirement Home Activities
Kids Care
Club visits to the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Sunday Sweets program
and the Springvale Terrace Sunday Coffee Hour are being planned. Please
contact Cathy Gruber (cag9@earthlink.net)
if you and your children would be interested in visiting either of these
communities.
The Hebrew Home website has some great ideas on how to help; go to:
www.hebrew-home.org/volunteer.html.
Planning Future Events
If each Kids Care
Club event has two families working together to organize the event, its
very easy! If you would like to help in brainstorming and organizing upcoming
events, please contact Cathy Gruber (cag9@earthlink.net). |
Our First Adat Shalom "East" Activity May 23!
We will be helping approximately 30 older Russian
and Columbian orphans who are visiting the DC area in July. The kids come
to the United States to stay with families that are interested in adopting
children. A private school in the DC area is making backpacks for the
kids coming this summer and we will be assembling items for the backpacks:
disposable cameras, photo albums, pens, and notebooks. We will also be
decorating a coverpage for the albums and making welcoming cards or pictures
to include in the backpack.
Kidsave is delighted that we will be helping with this project and we
hope to have a child who has participated in this Kidsave program join
us.
Thank you to Beth Sperber Richie
and Lynne Sacks for coordinating this program!
Location—
A
big thank you to Jodi Jacobson for arranging for our activity to take
place at the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), 6930 Carroll
Avenue, Suite 910, Takoma Park, MD.
To learn more about Kidsave International, visit
www.kidsave.org.
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