Here are just a few examples of where your United Way donation is going, and the impact you are making on our community. Last year:
- Cancer Council of Ellis County supplied nutritional supplements to six individuals to help them maintain/gain weight in order to continue cancer treatments.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters, matched 153 kids with Bigs, helping give them self-confidence and a positive role model.
- Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland-Sunflower Region helped 328 young women enhance their leadership skills through the leadership program.
- First Call for Help aided in 38 families increasing their knowledge of community resources thorugh their education and prevention program.
- Twenty individuals were proved safe shelter from abuse by Northwest Kansas Domestic and Sexual Violence Services.
- Parenting skills were improved by 27 parents through the parent education class offered by Parents And Children Together.