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Current issue, September 2018, #23
Next Steering meeting: Monday Sept 24 at 7:00PM. Location: Lexington Cary Library, large meeting room, downstairs.
Table of contents

  • Save the date: October 14th at Temple Isaiah for a gala LexRAP Fundraiser/Dinner. We need helpers for this event!  Come to the September 24 Steering Committee meeting.
  • Back to School: We recently gave twenty-five $100 gift cards to refugee parents for their children's school supplies, shoes, and clothes.
  • It takes a Village: Recently we were able to help one of our LexRAP families -- a Syrian mom and her teenage twin boys -- to find a home in Lexington!
  • New initiative to directly help the families:
    We are raising money to help the refugees we are involved with be re-united with their families.
  • More Tutors and Social Workers needed: We have found that the needs for the children with disrupted education are less about spoken language than basic education and also that vocabulary and reading are essential needs to help the children catch up – which the children do rapidly
  • LexRAP's Sustained Giving Initiative: Become a Sustaining Givers and give a little or a lot automatically every month. Please indicate that you’re responding to our appeal for BACK TO SCHOOL funds. Click here to donate online.
  • Our 2018 Laptop drive still in process!! 
  • Contact information from our agency partners and more ...

Next Steering meeting: Monday Sept 24 at 7:00PM. Location: Lexington Cary Library, large meeting room, downstairs.
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Newsflash - Mar 13, 2018

LexRAP has been nominated  for a 2018 New England Innovation Award!  This award recognize those companies that have transformed their innovative ideas into a product or service that delivers proven value to customer.