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Current issue, December 2018, #26
Next Steering meeting: Tuesday, January 15 at 7:00PM.
Location: Cary Library, downstairs in the Learning Center
Table of contents

  • Amazing Gifts - LexRAP received 26 gift bags - one for each of the LexRAP kids (and one bag for one soon to be born) from LexFun, a networking group for families with kids under 5. A huge shout out to Tuna Chatterjee for organizing and thinking of doing this and to the whole LexFun community for their generosity. https://lexfun.org/
  • Community Nursery School (CNS) threw them a "baby shower" of sorts for a refugee couple and soon to be born baby now wants for nothing. A shout out to Lisa Foo who organized this baby shower for the soon to be new parents.
  • For the third year now, a family has donated to us four toy Hess Trucks to give to kids.  They are fabulous, and kids’ faces light-up when they open up the package and see these trucks.
  • Cub Scout Pack 137, Den 9 Webelos, Lexington had a bake sale to raise money for LexRAP and donated $310!
  • Do you have an extra room? The rules around applying for asylum in the United States have changed and the wait to get asylum keeps getting longer. This problem exists here in New England – not just at our Southern border.  All of this translates into people who are seeking asylum needing financial help and housing. 
  • Family Reunification Fund: We are raising money to help the refugees we are involved with be re-united with their families. If you would like to donate to this fund, please CLICK HERE. Put the fund name on your check or along with the on-line donation.
  • 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. Click here to donate online.
  • Laptop drive still needed!! LexRAP has given away almost 50 Laptops! Give us your used laptop, we refurbish and give it a new home. 
  • Contact information from our agency partners and more ...

Next Steering meeting: Tuesday, January 15 at 7:00PM.
Location: Cary Library, downstairs in the Learning Center
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