Delivery to Another January Client



Last month a caseworker shared a story of a 16 year old teen, a great student, who lived with her parents (both deaf)  She was expecting a baby and in need of a dresser.  A special VLC volunteer touched by her situation contacted us and offered to throw a shower for her.  Due to confidentiality and privacy issues it could not be arranged...so instead this volunteer found, purchased and shared this beautiful dresser/changing table from Craigs List!  She was a young lady well beyond her years....and so grateful for the kindness of this stranger!  The generosity of time and treasure is always amazing....

Sharing with January's Families

A special thank you to our friends at Colder's Furniture who recently contacted us with
a new couch and loveseat to share!  A volunteer with a trailer agreed to pick them up 
and get them to the VLC locker.  The day prior to the pickup, a caseworker from Safe Babies/ Healthy Families emailed with a need for a couch and loveseat for Linden Cherish House, a home for teenage single mothers and children who are considered homeless.  It felt like the match was meant to be.  The pickup volunteer agreed to deliver the couch and loveseat directly to Cherish House that evening, and on a very cold and snowy night, he and his son pulled his trailer thru snowy streets...we shoveled a walkway, and with great determination, pushed both very heavy pieces through 2 doorways that were too small (without taking off the doors!) and into the living room! 

January's Project- Sorting Books for the VLC Childrens Free Library

A special thank you to the VLC Volunteers who signed up and helped with the January
Project, sorting 8,000 books that were donated to the VLC Children's Free Library from
a school that closed.  Volunteers worked to sort the books for children from kinder-
garten to 5th grade for our library and re-boxed all of the books for older children,
along with reference books.  New homes were found for them at several Waukesha
Schools along with Lad Lake.  Your help was greatly appreciated and our present
stockpile should easily carry us well into spring! 

Volunteers Of Lake Country established this library 1.5 years ago. Studies have shown
that there is a direct correlation between the number of books in a child's home to
their success in school, and with your commitment we have continued to maintain
this library at the Hope Center. Thanks to your support, to the book drives you have 
held in your schools, churches and subdivisions, your personal book donations from
home and to your shopping at rummage sales in the summer and collecting your
neighbors leftovers after their rummage sales,  we estimate VLC has given over 1,000
books away to children every month....20,000 books in total!