Updates: ‘volunteer’
The women of Allied PRA were able to donate some time this week on the hottest day of the year so far! The did a fantastic job helping with our backpack program, packing backpacks and sorting food supply. During their time with us, they prepared backpacks for twelve of our schools, serving over 1,000 children in Orange County who would otherwise be without nutritional foods. We are very grateful for their service!
We were very excited to host team members from Target stores throughout the area. We have been working to find a time that works for everyone and finally made it happen yesterday. They did a great job in all three of our main volunteer projects. From sorting medical supplies for distribution to a clinic in Haiti to packing backpacks full of food for children in need throughout Orange County to arranging donations of household supplies for our hundreds of partner agencies. They did a great job, always with a smile. We were very grateful for their help and are looking forward to having them serve with us again soon.
In addition, we are also the recipient of a Target Community Grant for $5,000 which they brought yesterday! Thanks Target for giving your time and support to Bring Health to Kids in Crisis!
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A very big GCHope “Thank You” to the team members from Bank of America who were able volunteer in our We’ve Got Your Back program yesterday. Over 65 volunteers were able to pack over 750 backpacks for Orange County Children in need. We always appreciate teams like theirs where we have to work to keep them busy. We are looking forward to seeing you all again in October or hopefully even sooner!
Thanks again to our friends over at ADP! There were at our warehouse on Tuesday to help with the packing of our backpacks as well as ensuring that the food supply we send to our children each week are of the best quality. If you look back through a couple of our older posts (here and here) you will see that ADP has been sending us volunteers for quite some time now. Thanks for being faithful supporters of our efforts and for Bringing Health to Kids in Crisis!
A big thank you to our friends over at SD Deacon. They have comes several times now to help out with tour We’ve Got Your Back program and they are always a pleasure to have. This time, not only did they work on filling the backpacks for our kids, but also put together school supply packages for them. It is so wonderful to have friends and organizations throughout the SoCal area that are ready to step up and serve these children each and every week. Check out these pictures of SD Deacon in action!
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Back in November, we were privileged to have a group of Moms come with their little ones from Calvary Church in Santa Ana to volunteer in our We’ve Got Your Back Program. This week, we had an entirely new group of Moms do the same thing. I can’t tell you have beautiful it is to see little toddlers giving up their time to serve other children in our own community who don’t always have enough to eat. Thanks Calvary for having some of the best Moms around!!
Number of People: 11
Area of Focus: We’ve Got Your Back
Accomplishments: Thanks again to the folks over at ADP! They have sent several teams to volunteer with us over the past year and a half and yet another one came by last week. The weekly task of filling backpacks was what they tackled. We appreciate all their hard work and look forward to having them back again soon.
Number of People: 15ish
Area of Focus: We’ve Got Your Back
Accomplishments: Calvary Church holds a special place in my heart as it is the Church I grew up in. Thanks to a great group of Moms, a few Dads and their kids from Calvary who helped out with backpacks. It felt like having family come and visit!!!
Number of People: 19 
Area of Focus: We’ve Got Your Back
Accomplishments: Give me a P! Give me a T! Give me a K! What does that spell? Phi Theta Kappa! We had these amazing Cal State Fullerton students coming in and out of our warehouse all day. Some students stayed for more than 6 hours! They helped us fill almost all of the backpacks and stocked two pallets of donated food items. Not only that, they organized all of our shelves in the We’ve Got Your Back program. Words cannot express how grateful our WGYB Coordinator is for that and how grateful we at Giving Children Hope are for your generosity.
EIM
Number of People: 101!!
Area of focus: We’ve Got Your Back
Accomplishments: I would like to take this moment to bow down to EIM. They brought in 4 different groups in one week! Two morning groups of 18 and 28 people and two afternoon groups of 15 and 40 people bring their total of volunteers to a whopping 101 volunteers! As you can see in our photos, our warehouse did get a bit more crowded than normal, but we couldn’t be happier. They brought in 10+ boxes of donated food and sorted and organized much more than that! As if that weren’t enough, these amazing people filled and prepared a countless number of backpacks for distribution. You could hear the hustle and bustle combined with a lot of laughter and chit-chat from our warehouse a mile away. It was our pleasure having this generous group volunteer at Giving Children Hope and we would love to have them back anytime. Thank you EIM!
