School Days

Well I am sitting here trying to plan my Back to School Event which I have been contemplating since April. The nonprofit organization which I am the Program Director of is Creole Creation, Incorporated. Our mission is broken down into three segments Housing, Education, and Higher Quality of Life. This event focuses on our education initiative. We would like to help families get their children ready for back to school with school supply help. As the rising prices of today not only make us choose between, food, gas for the vehicle, and utility cost. Our quality of lives for the things that are essential to our children may not always come first in the grand scheme of things. The sacrafices we must make as parents already have us reeling into overdrive to figure out how one will afford all the things needed for the upcoming school year.
The uniforms are a large chunk of the budget along with personal items such as socks, and undershirts for girls or boys. Though the schools mostly have children wear uniforms for any size family this can also tax on our budgets. The School Days Project Initiative is one that is a year long thing that does not just stop at the beginning of school. As we forge forward there will be other facets that will be opened to help the teachers in the classroom as more supplies and funding is found to gather the much needed supplies for them as well. There are several parishes that we are focusing on and hope we can give some relief for those teachers as well trying to have a home budget and a classroom budget. The corporate and local sponsorship needed for such a thing is in the process of being sought and I am in great expectancy that this initiative will be seen as one of a great help to all who come into contact with it. Families are suffering and there seems to be no end to this vast famine of financial possibilities. The jobs are not paying much as when you look at the gas it took to go for the hours you're given one finds that they may have only made a few dollars past the fuel expense. These are the realities of today and we see all that people are going through.
I still remain human in the worst of conditions and try to understand the problems of families. The help that we give can mean alot to some and even if one has not reached as many as we wanted we have tried to give some relief to those who need it.