Congratulations to Jean! Here is a picture of Jean receiving the George Washington Award For Human Development from Jose Acuna by the Trenton Cyrus #5 of Free and Accepted Masons in Pennington. If you have never attended this ceremony, you should make it a point to do so. The history of George Washington and his [...]
Our hearts go out to all the families affected by the recent gas explosion in Ewing. Many families lost their homes and all of their belongings. We were happy to be part of a relief effort organized by our local Red Cross. Our volunteers handed out new sweatshirts, long sleeve T shirts, blankets, books, and [...]
The program runs for twelve weeks and meets after school. It teaches these young girls everything from healthy nutrition, managing stress, organizational skills to dealing with peer pressure, and yes they run and train!! Because the goal is to enter a series of 5k runs in the area. This program keeps these at risk girls [...]
The Trenton Catholic Academy Lower School held their annual Pajama Day for CHFK. It was a huge success! The students had a great time wearing their pajamas to school all to raise money to help less fortunate kids. Principal Mrs. Anne Reap said this is an event that they look forward to and they are [...]
The Valentine party we hosted at the Pat Reeves Village Shelter in West Palm was a huge success! The kids had a great time. We had them make picture frames again this year which has become a very popular craft project. Their pictures were taken days before so they were very exited by the finished [...]
On Jan 25th I returned to the Pat Reeves Village in West Palm Beach to see the result of our donation for the renovation of the children's play room. Last year we gave the center a donation of $2500. to paint the room, buy new shelves, tables and chairs, books and toys to freshen up [...]
We sure were impressed when we received a Christine’s Heroes nomination for Micaela Fink. At the age of fourteen she is already an inspiration to those around her and her sense of community, generosity and passion for helping children in need is exactly what Christine’s Hope for Kids is all about. Micaela has volunteered for [...]
On Saturday we filled 300 trick or treat bags with candy, pretzels, Halloween pencils and erasers and of course an assortment of spider rings!! Many kids can't go trick or treating for various reasons, but they shouldn't miss out on the best part, the treat bag. So thanks to volunteers Kevin and Melissa Simmons, Sara [...]
Christine's Hope for Kids made a $3,000 donation last week to Big Brothers Big Sisters. This donation will enable the organization to continue to provide activities and programs for the kids in the program. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mercer County serves approximately 600 children and their families annually. They provide children facing adversity with [...]
I am always amazed at how fast kids can work when you give them a fun project. We went to the Princeton YMCA summer camp as we have every summer for the last several years to pack backpacks last week. We organized all the supplies in assembly line order and the campers went to town!! [...]
