I want to celebrate my staff, volunteers, and YOU, our faithful supporters.

Christal Young, one of our Board Members also shopped each week for all of our non-perishables despite the risk to herself. Christal, you were a life saver to Cassie, me, and our families.

Kathy Foley-Todd, Director of Operations, single handedly set up online tutoring, figuring out which schools used what applications, and connected our staff and volunteers with the students to enable them to assist with online school assignments. She had to instruct the students and our staff in these new software applications.

 

Kathy you did an amazing job!!!!

I may embarass this special volunteer, Amy Tan, but she was such an encouragement to us and to our students. Amy is one of our faithful Learning Center volunteers along with her two children, Nina and Jeffrey. Amy was quarantined at home, so she wrote to all forty Learning Center students. Letter writing is a novelty to our students. One young lady in seventh grade was shocked that she could receive mail at her house. She was super excited about that letter. Amy also coordinated food collections on her porch and then contactlessly delivered them to us for our pantry. Additionally, she provided books for our children to read during quarantine. Probably most importantly, for one young third grade student, she patiently helped her daily with her on line assignments.

 

Amy, you are a hero to us!!!.

Finally, YOU, our supporters, when this pandemic first hit and we had to close our programs, it crossed my mind that Kids Alley would most likely suffer financially.

You have been so faithful in supporting our organization in the past few months. Your gifts to the pantry allowed us to expand our pantry from non-perishables and toiletries to include milk, bread, cheese, meat, eggs, fresh fruit and butter.