Help Fort Wayne's Kids: Take Part in "Day of Caring"

Join the Fort Wayne community in helping kids by participating in this year’s United Way Day of Caring on August 8. Each year over 1,000 volunteers complete over 50 community service projects.

This year all of the projects are at sites that help kids succeed in life and learning.

Register your team and pick a project that matches your team size and interests. Projects include painting, cleaning, landscaping, and/or interactive work at non profit agencies, child care centers, youth centers, schools and churches.

Project selection will be July 24, 3:30 p.m. at the Allen County Public Library Main Branch.

Teams can also sponsor books for their site by making a contribution. United Way will purchase age appropriate books from Scholastic for your project site.

Did you know? In low-income neighborhoods the ratio of books is 1 per every 300 children, compared to 13 books per child in middle-to-high-income neighborhoods. Over 80% of preschool and after-school programs serving low-income children have no age appropriate books. The result: upon entering kindergarten, children from “literacy rich” homes have a 10,000-word vocabulary; children from “literacy poor” homes know only 800.

Click Here to register for the Day of Caring. For more information contact Jamie Garwood at (260) 422-4776 or jamieg@uwacin.org.