The feature below is brought to you by Little Lambs Foundation, an organization that is in the running to receive a See Beautiful Grant. For more information about our giving initiatives, please click here. To learn more about the featured organization, please visit their website here. Championing ChildrenChildren in our community start school in late summer around the last week of August. For thousands of children in the Cache Valley community that comes with a lot of stress and anxiety, especially after the previous year of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting many aspects of their lives. Many of these families have had a huge reduction in finances. Businesses who have had to shut their doors and employers having to lay off employees, reduce their hours or have had to let employees go, more of these families are struggling and need assistance. With these economic challenges families who may have never needed outside help have to ask Little Lambs for assistance in providing school supplies for their children. In Logan City, Utah we have a 26.8% poverty rate (an increase of 1.4% in just the past 12 months) which is almost double the national poverty rate. Many children go to school with worn out clothing, poor hygiene and no school supplies. Little Lambs provides school supply kits, new pajamas and family hygiene kits every year for the past 7 years for low income families, children in foster care and emergency shelters. Sadly the need grows every year. We would like to expand our ability to reach even more children in desperate need. Due to the large multicultural populations that we serve we have families from all over the world that participate in the distribution. No child is turned away no matter race , ethnic origin or religion . Little Lambs is creating beautiful by giving every child the same opportunities as their peers throughout our many different programs to help children in foster care as well as children living in poverty with basic necessities to grow and thrive. Education forms the foundation of any society. For a child to have the proper tools to learn, grow and succeed is fundamental to a child's development. Little Lambs wants every child to feel equal to their peers. Every child should feel empowered to learn. By having the proper tools to succeed children can feel a sense of belonging feeling confident, prepared and ready to succeed. In the previous years we have had teachers, principals and social workers report that by having children come prepared to school and with proper hygiene it has cut down on bullying in their schools. And that my friend is beauty in its most natural form. Here at Little Lambs we see beauty by helping children rise above their economic challenges and thriving in everything they do. All children deserve a champion on their side and that is true beauty. Be beautiful and support a child in your community today ☺ Submitted by: Ted ChalfantWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.
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