“The fact that many of our neighbors are hurting financially is no surprise, but this year too many children in Washtenaw County are facing a particularly cold winter without boots, warm coats, gloves, and mittens,” says Mary Stewart, who heads the non-profit organization Warm the Children.
The heart-warming, children-warming program is working hard to help as many children as possible this winter—“but we have been flooded with more requests than ever before, and we’re running out of funds. We desperately need help.”
By mid-November, before the snow began falling, the non-profit had already provided winter coats, boots, warm pajamas, socks, sweatshirts, and other necessities for 1,490 children—but many more need help. “We’re funded entirely by donations from members of our community,” Stewart says. “They’ve matched what we’ve received in the past—but the need is much greater this year.”…