The Gift Of Giving 2008 Coats and Boots Campaign is collecting new coats and new boots to help clothe over 1500 needy children residing in distressed communities throughout metropolitan Detroit, Michigan and other Wayne counties.

 

The program will distribute new coarts and new boots to needy children for back to school and/or during the holiday seasons. The progam will serve Wayne, Macomb, Monroe and Oakland Counties. The progam will also serve Toledo, Ohio, Lucas county and other counties in Ohio. The program was implemented since 80% of households lives at or below the poverty rate in southeastern Michigan and other Wayne counties.

 

According to recent statistics Detroit's poverty rate of 33.8 percent was highest among cities of 250,000 or more, while Kalamazoo and Flint tied for fifth among cities of 65,000 to 249,999 people. Both had rates of 35.5 percent. Many of these children does not have a coat and/or boots to carry them through the winter months, so we seek your support in helping us to provide these needy children with a new coat and new boots for the winter months. Sixty percent of the homeless population is single mothers with children.

 

48% of the poverty-stricken in Wayne county, Michigan is children. The program will provide assistance for the homeless single mothers residing in The Gift Of A Helping Hand Emergency Shelter and single mothers with children leaving out of domestic violence situations and other single mothers with children residing in homeless shelters.

 

We need your support in assisting us in serving over 1500 needy children for the 2008 calendar year. Become our sponsor and donate to us today. Send your donations ATTN: Coats & Boots Campaign Director, The Gift Of A Helping Hand Charitable Trust, 17148 Waltham, Detroit, MI 48205.

 

Or donate here online.