COVID-19 Relief
With the closure of schools and workplaces due to COVID-19, our nation is facing challenges unlike anything we have ever encountered. Loss of jobs and wages, illness, and academic challenges are a new reality. Now, more than ever, American families need the Boys & Girls Clubs. More than 4,700 local Clubs serve more than 4.7 million kids and teens in nearly every community in America, from urban to rural, in public schools and on Native lands and US Military instillations globally. Clubs provide this nation's youth, families and communities safe places, trusted adult mentors, and a helping hand in a time of crisis.Faced with the urgent, growing need for relief services caused by this pandemic, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula is working to support kids and families with nowhere else to turn. That's why, catalyzed by generous commitments from United Way of Clallam County and the City of Sequim we're launching the COVID-19 Relief Fund to empower us to serve the urgent needs of youthand families in Sequim and Port Angeles. Support to this fund will immediately help us continue critical COVID-19 response work for as long as needed.
COVID-19 Relief: Response, Recovery, Resilience
The uncertainty that we feel as a result of COVID-19 is what some Club kids feel everyday. Now more than ever kids and families need to feel safe. We are already providing immediate and near-term relief efforts, such as:
Distributing food and other necessary supplies as well as comfort items.
Extending operating hours and providing emergency childcare services for children of first responders, military families, healthcare workers, providers of essential services and those with nowhere else to turn.
Providing digital youth development programming for Club families to remain connected, feel supported, learn and build skills.
When this crisis passes, we will be vital to helping kids and families get back on their feet, restoring a sense of safety and rebuilding this community. For kids, the Club will provide a feeling of safety that has been lost. Club programs will help get kids back on track - belaying academic backslide from weeks or months of school cancellations.
Gifts to the COVID-19 Relief Fund will support local response, recovery and resilience and enable our Clubs to mount immediate relief and recovery efforts.
"If it wasn't for the Club being open I wouldn't be able to go out and care for my clients that need help getting out of bed or getting help with wound care or food supplies." Jeanette (Grandma of Anna age 10 and Foster Parent to Patience age 8)
"I wouldn't be able to work as a social worker if the Club wasn't open. Our family is super grateful in these uncertain times." Maureen (Mom of Erika, age 11)
"We feel so lucky to have the service of the Club. We are truly grateful to be able to keep working as a mental health counselors while our children are being cared for in this emergency time. The Boys & Girls Club has our truest support!" Alan (Father of Hudson, age 6 and Ellie, age 5)
Monica is the parent of Stacey, age 11 and Taryn, age 8. Monica is a single parent with no other childcare options in our area while she works to provide for their family. They do not have internet which makes the Club the only place they can complete their online homework.
Your Donation at Work!
- $5000 provides meals and snacks for one month
- $2500 purchases athletic equipment
- $1250 funds Fine Arts for one year
- $650 funds one member summer camp program
- $300 upgrades technology in the Computer Lab
- $100 purchases books for the Library
- $50 provides milk for a month
- $30 covers a kid's membership fee
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