814 students in the Thompson School District (TSD) have been identified as housing insecure. 77 of these children do not live with a parent or guardian and may live with a friend or on their own. Members of the Loveland Thompson Valley Rotary (LTVR) club will partner with Sheels to provide 50 black winter coats and Rotarians will shop for the additional 70 coats in an assortment of colors. The coats will be delivered to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Act liaison at TSD, Erica Wooldridge. Erica will then distribute the coats to the neediest students in time for the 2024 winter break.
In addition, Rotarians will choose fifty needy students who have given their holiday wish list to the Peakview Giving Tree for PK-8 students. Rotarians will purchase the gifts and bring them to the club's "Gift Wrapping" meeting to be held in early December. The wrapped gifts will be then taken to Gloris Major, TSD's Prog/Prev Specialist, to be distributed to the children.
Rotarians will be reimbursed from their receipts ($60 per child maximum).
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