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WE'VE MET OUR GOAL OF $2000!! Thank you to everyone who contributed to this campaign!!!
*****I have raised the funding bar a bit to allow for last minute donations. Anything raised above $2k will be used to fund therapy books requested by the professionals working with the children at HHH.*****
We are Alice (8) and Lisa (Alice's mama) and we live down the street from Helping Hand Home, the oldest contuniously operating residential childcare agency in Travis County. Helping Hand Home for Children provides a safe haven for children healing from physical, emotional and sexual abuse, neglect or abandonment. HHH is one of only a few treatment centers in the US dedicated to serving young children who have experienced severe physical, sexual and emotional trauma.
Most days, we pass by HHH on our way to the grocery store or to run errands. We think about the kids living there. The other day while we walked to school, we talked about how sometimes kids living in similar situations don't have a lot of things, or books, to have for themselves. Alice has a deep love for books and lately has taken a particular liking to Usborne books. We talked about how wonderful it would be to give a stack of books to each child currently living at the home. Books that they could write their name in, have for their own, and keep for themselves.
Luckily, Usborne Books has a grant matching program and will match 50% of funds raised to provide book bundles for each child living at Helping Hand Home. The kids have flipped through the catalogue and have chosen 5 books for a wishlist. We hope to raise 40 donations of $50 or more to provide a stack of books for each child for Valentine's Day.
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