Help Us Put 3,000 Winter Coats On Kentucky Children In Need!
My name is Devine Carama and we are entering the final 2 weeks of our 6th Annual "A Coat To Keep The Cold Away" youth coat drive and we are asking you for help! We have given away over 8,500 BRAND NEW coats to youth in central and eastern KY in the last 5 years and we expect to give away around 3,000 more coats this year! The unique thing about our coat drive is that we only accept BRAND NEW coats. We not only want to provide struggling families with a little helping hand during the holiday season, but we also want to build confidence. A lot of the youth we serve don’t receive brand new items often so we feel giving them something new will inspire them to pay good deeds forward one day when they are in a position to help others!
We work directly with the Family Resource Centers in the schools in the areas we are serving to get the total amount and genders of coats requested from families in need. We start accepting requests in October, collecting coats in November, and look to delivery by the second week of December before students head home for the break. Below are ways that businesses and individuals can give! The final day for donations is December 15th!
***Alternative Ways To Donate:
-Organize a mini coat drive at your work space. Encourage employees to bring in brand new youth coat sizes until the first week of December when we start collecting.
-Checks can be written to ‘Believing In Forever’ Inc’ and mailed to 501 W. 6th Street, Suite 250, Lexington, KY 40508
-Smaller donations can be made electronically via Cash App to $BelievingInForever, Venmo to BelievingInForever, or Paypal to 859-303-2637