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This Holiday Season, You Can Help |
This holiday season you can make a difference in the lives of foster children in a variety of meaningful ways. Family Programs Hawai‘i has several  ways by which you can make an impact in the lives of children in foster care or at risk of being placed in the child welfare system. Here is how you can help:
- $200 gets you a brick placed in the patio or walkway of the new receiving home, Ho`omalu O Na Kamali‘i, being built in Ma‘ili. The brick is inscribed with your name, company or business, or in honor of a loved one.
brick brochure
- An in-kind gift of products, servi ces, or toys for the holi days will make the holidays and the new year brighter for our foster children and families. Check out our wish list for the new receiving home, click Ho`omalu wish list.
- Your unrestricted gift of a c ash do n ation, to be put to use where it is needed the most, wi ll allow Family Programs Hawai‘i to help those foster children and families that need special help this holiday season.
You can now give online by clicking on DONATE. For more information on these and other ways to make a difference, contact Connie Sizemore at 521-9531 ext. 224.
Kids Helping Kids
Six hundred 8th grade students at Mililani Middle School participated in the school’s 4th Annual Walk-a-thon and raised $10,000 for Ho`omalu O Na Kamali`i. The three tracks of students (Kupono, Laulima, & Malama) chose to support the home on the
Leeward
Coast for children removed from their parents for reports of abuse and neglect, by sponsoring one of the bedrooms for $10,000.
The project is part of a Service Learning class in which students learn more about problems and issues in the community and then develop a plan to help solve them. A plaque will hang outside their sponsored bedroom, sharing their story with children visiting the home. Each track name willalso be inscribed in a brick placed in the walkway of Ho`omalu O Na Kamali`i.
Mahalo to the 8th graders of
Mililani
Middle School for their stellar fundraising efforts.
Kupono, Laulima & Malama students at the check presentation assembly.
eXcel guides high school seniors in foster care to successfully prepare for and enter postsecondary education or vocational training. This new program targets foster youth interested in attending college or vocational training. eXcel initially concentrates on career and interest exploration, establishing goals, and learning basic independent skills. Support will be provided in the application process and completing financial aid and scholarship applications. For further information or referral, please contact Jennifer Cilfone at 521-9531, ext. 297. Click here to download excel referral form.
A program funded by The Victoria S. and Bradley L. Geist Foundation
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