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Sunshine Sacks for Foster Children Children's Day in the Plaza Morro Bay Kite Festival
Camp Reach for the Stars Laguna Middle School Christmas Gift Store PJ's for DJ's
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*Sunshine
Sacks for Foster Children
CCFC has partnered with The Family Care
Network to provide a bag for each child placed in
emergency foster care.
These children often leave home with very few belongings of their
own.
Each month, CCFC
members meet at the Nazarene Church to make 20-40 sacks that contain
toiletries, blanket, stuffed animal, notebook/journal, crayons, coloring
book, pencils, calendar and a snack.
Family Care Network then delivers these sacks to each emergency
foster home. Thanks to generous donations from Kiwanis of San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, contributions from local dentists and businesses, CCFC members and friends, CCFC is able to provide these bags with little or no out of pocket expenses. Once a year in August, FCN asks for additional help providing school supplies to 80 or more children at a “back to school party”. CCFC members often donate personal funds to support this project.
*Children’s Day in the Plaza
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Saturday April 12th, 2008 Central Coast Funds for Children participated in the annual fair for children at Mission Plaza on April 12, 2008. We enjoy being part of this event every year. What a wonderful day and happy smiles from all of the children who were having a great time. April is National Child
Prevention Month.
Each year SLOCAP, San Luis
Obispo Child Abuse Prevention and Child Care Planning Council of SLO County
sponsor this event.
Children and their parents
spend the day, from 10:00 to 4:00 being entertained and educated by the many
non – profit groups and agencies.
We have so much fun
entertaining and helping the children make fruit loop necklaces.
Fourteen of us served up fruit
loops and tied necklaces all day.
Of course some of the
necklaces were eaten up pretty quickly.
We explored other booths and
talked about the children and learned much about the joy of youth.
It was a good day to be young.
*Morro Bay Annual Kite Festival –Saturday, April 25,
2009
*”Camp Reach for the Stars” – June
2009
CCFC
*Laguna Middle School Christmas Gift Store
Since 2001, CCFC members have provided contributions to this worthwhile
“spirit of giving” project at Laguna Middle School.
Students, under the guidance of Mrs. Carlin,
solicit for and manage a Christmas shop open to children who are part
of the EOC programs and local elementary schools to purchase new and gently
used items at very low prices.
Proceeds from the sale are voted on by the students and donated to other
nonprofits in SLO County.
Not
only do the students receive valuable skills in sales and merchandising but
they also provide the opportunity for local children to participate in the
joy of giving.
Central Coast Funds For
Children
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