Today, students will learn more about Mom2Mom- a local organization that supports single moms and their children who are living in poverty right here in Vancouver.
For the second year in a row, our class and two others are sponsoring three families who have very little.
We are grateful for any donations that you can offer and will accept them in our classroom until November 25th.
Click here to see the wishlist for all three families.
We hope you can help!
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Here is some more information about Mom2Mom:
Dear Cavell families,
We are writing to you
to ask your support of the Mom 2 Mom organization. We encourage you
to visit the M2M blog at http://www.m2mcharity.ca/, or
have a look at
the the Mom 2 Mom facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Mom2Mom-Vancouver-629599763802862/?fref=ts where you will find inspiring stories of the resiliency, strength and
resourcefulness of mothers here in Vancouver.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
ON MOM 2 MOM
Mom2Mom (M2M) was
co-founded by developmental pediatrician, Dr. Barbara Fitzgerald, who has been
working in Vancouver Inner City Schools since 1997. In her role, she saw that
children were in loving homes, however poverty created huge disparities in the
tools they received to foster their success at school and in life. With such an
uneven playing field, the likelihood that they would succeed seemed remote.
Through compassionate and respectful mentoring, our M2M volunteers help and
support mothers to parent their children and provide them with the tools they
need to be successful. We try to provide the basic necessities for their homes
and food to feed their families, but mostly we extend kindness and compassion
to women who may not have had enough of that. We hope to level the playing
field a bit so that resilient, loving mothers can raise healthy children who
finish school and go on to lead happy and productive lives.
SPECIFICALLY WE ARE
ASKING FOR HELP WITH OUR WISHLIST PROJECT….
Families at M2M have received
a blank wish list and have been coached to ask for ANYTHING they need or DREAM
of. We have summarized their requests on the attached sheet. These families
have so little, with your help we can make an enormous difference in their
lives. Our hope is that you and your team are able to grant or donate as many
of the wish list items as possible on the list.
Your class will be receiving their wishlist on November 18th,
at which point …
GUIDELINES FOR GIVING
o
Please do not donate
what is not on the list; the families at Mom 2 Mom do not have any means to
store items they are not using.
o
Please ensure that the
items are freshly washed, like new and good quality. Something you would like to receiveJ
o
If you are not able to
donate items from the list, please consider adding gift cards to grocery
stores, community centers and a preloaded compass card. Each family has listed
grocery gift cards on their wish list.
o
If the size of clothing
requested is not one you have ready access to, please consider purchasing items
from consignment stores.
o
Please send items you
are donating to your child`s classroom during the week of November 18th – 25th, 2016.
o
We cannot accept cash donations.
THANK YOU so much for helping us to
show families in need that they are a part of an incredible community.
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