See Beautiful Grant Applicant: Little Lambs Foundation for Kids

The feature below is brought to you by Little Lambs Foundation for Kids, an organization that is in the running to receive a See Beautiful Grant. For more information about all of our giving initiatives, please click here. 

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Creating beautiful through opportunities for kids

School starts in late August here in Utah and for thousands of children in our community that comes with a lot of stress and anxiety especially this year with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting many households throughout our community. Due to many businesses having to shut their doors this spring employers have had to lay off employees, reduce their hours or have had to let employees go. With these new economic challenges families who may have never needed outside help are having to ask Little Lambs for assistance in providing school supplies for their children. 
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In Logan city we have a 25.4% 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 6 years for children in foster care, emergency shelters and low income families. Sadly the need grows every year. We would like to expand our ability to reach more children in desperate need.

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 having children come prepared to school and with proper hygiene it has cut down on bullying in their schools. And that my friends is beauty in its most natural form. Here at Little Lambs we see beautiful by helping children rise above their economic challenges and thriving in everything they do.

Submitted by: ​Ted Chalfant