On January 15, 2010 the Kiwanis Club Orlando awarded a $1000 grant to The Foundation for Foster Children for offering outstanding support and services for children. Each grant is part of the club’s quarterly micro grant program, which provides members an opportunity to nominate 501©(3) organizations that reflect the Kiwanis mission – changing the world one community and one child at a time.
The Foundation shares our appreciation for this grant in which Kiwanis Foundation funds will be used to help support the ‘Adopt a Duffel’ emergency duffel kits that are directly provided to to children who have been removed from their home due to abuse or neglect and are entering the foster care system. Approximately 70 children per month within the tri-county area enter Florida’s child welfare system with little more than the clothes on their back. The Foundation’s ‘Adopt A Duffel’ program helps provide these special children with some basic items of comfort they can keep permanently and to carry some of their personal possessions through difficult circumstances.
Sincere thanks for this very generous gift to the Foundation for Foster Children!
In photo: Tom Porter, President – Kiwanis Club of Orlando