Best Friends

Deb Joseph, our Volunteer Coordinator who operated a six-week summer camp in Kentucky recently sent me a bunch of pictures of children at the camp. As I looked through the pictures, I couldn’t help but smile. When we visited Deb to see how the summer camp was going, she told us about a young man named Sam, who she was particularly grateful participated in the camp. Sam is 13 years old and very shy. He had never really had a...

Hope in Action Funds Summer Camp for Appalachian C...

Each spring, I remember eagerly observing the approach of summer. I looked forward to days spent playing in the pool or afternoons whiled away with a stack of books from the library. Sadly, many children in our US Division don’t look forward to the summer months. All the children on our US program receive free or reduced price meals at school based on their family’s income level. On school days each child receives a...

A New Room for Megan…

On a recent trip to Kentucky I had the pleasure of visiting one of our sponsored children’s homes. Andrew lives in a small mobile home at the top of a mountain with his younger siblings Billy and Megan. To get there, you travel up a long, winding gravel road. The school bus doesn’t go up the mountain, so to get to school, Andrew and his siblings have to walk down the mountain. It’s easy to see how their home could be...

Volunteer Coordinator Training in Kentucky

While school is out for the summer, Volunteer Coordinators are hard at work preparing for the coming school year. Last week, staff from Children, Incorporated and Volunteer Coordinators from Pike and Knott counties in Eastern Kentucky met for a training. Per Children, Incorporated’s new strategic plan, many things are changing in the way Volunteer Coordinators operate the program. Beginning with the 2011-2012 school...