The Broad Ripple Masonic Angel Fund was contacted by the Damien Center at the beginning of August concerning a family with four children badly in need of school uniforms, shoes, clothes and back to school supplies. The Angel Fund provided gift cards for Wal Mart for the family in the amount of $150 for each child.
With that $600 expenditure, the Angel Fund is falling dangerously low on financial resources. As you know, we restrict the fund benevolences to $150 to $200 per case, but when a whole family is in need, it can strain our Fund treasury.
The aim of the Fund is to answer calls for help within 24 hours of the request, but we can only continue to help the children in our community with your support. The Fund is supported strictly by donations. We have been blessed with generous contributions over the years that more than adequately covered our needs, but those gifts have tapered off this year. As children start back to school the requests begin to come in, and for the first time since 2001, we are approaching a level that we will have to turn away appeals.
Even a little bit can go along way to help a child in need of items that may seem trivial to us, but make a world of difference to them - new shoes, a winter coat, a backpack, summer camp fees, or just new socks and underwear. It is easy to take such things for granted, but there are kids in our schools for whom these are unbelievable luxuries. Please consider making a donation to the Angel Fund in the coming weeks, and help us to help them. Checks should be made out to Broad Ripple Masonic Angel Fund.
For more information, go to the Broad Ripple Lodge website at www.brlodge.org
Posted by Chris Hodapp at September 5, 2005 02:38 AM