COMMUNITY News:TO SIGN UP: To become a sponsor, contact Anne at anne@meapc.com or 708.799.8206. Specify what size family is preferred in your email. Family sizes range from 3-6 family members.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM: The Adopt-a-Family program was founded many years ago and has assisted many Los Alamos and surrounding area residents. In 2003, Margie Gillespie, long time program coordinator, had to step down and the Los Alamos Alpha Zeta chapter of Beta Sigma Phi took on the challenge of coordinating the Adopt-a-Family program.
We focus on assisting families in the Los Alamos Public School system. We have gathered names from Los Alamos school counselors and to date, we have over 70 families in the program. No one is turned away unless they don’t have children in the schools. Even then, if we have extra sponsors we try to help.
YOUR COMMITMENT:
The program consists of, at a minimum, supplying:
- • a food gift certificate to a grocery story like Smiths
- • one (new) gift of necessity (such as an article of clothing) for each child in the family
- • one (new) want (such as a book or toy) per child in the family
After we assign your family, we’ll send you all the specifics that will help you shop for them including sizes, wants, needs, interests, etc.
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