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Saturday, January 10, 2004

Readers Care Fund: The people who benefit

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF

The following charities will benefit from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's 2003-04 Readers Care Fund drive.

All five organizations are smaller than those funded by major sources, so they rely more heavily on the generosity of individual donors.

  • Rise n' Shine, which provides emotional support for children and teenagers affected by HIV and AIDS. The organization gives young people Christmas presents and access to support groups and a free week of summer camp, where they meet other children who have relatives with HIV or AIDS, or who have these themselves.

  • The Forgotten Children's Fund, which buys, wraps and delivers food, toys and coats to needy children in King, Pierce and Island counties. This year, using hundreds of volunteers, the fund played Santa to 500 families.

  • New Futures, which provides customized services and programs to children and families in low-income apartment complexes in White Center, Burien and SeaTac. The charity offers preschool and after-school programs for children and helps their families achieve more stability and self-sufficiency. This is the first year New Futures will get money from the Readers Care Fund.

  • Powerful Voices' STAGES (Strength Through All-Girl Education and Support) program, which offers counseling and discussion groups for girls in and out of juvenile-detention facilities, covering topics such as health, drug abuse and job readiness. The program says that more than 70 percent of incarcerated girls have been victims of abuse and that girls' rehabilitation needs are more likely to be overlooked.

  • Southwest Youth and Family Services, which offers youth and family counseling, education, and family support to residents of White Center, South Park, Delridge and West Seattle. It takes some services to homes and schools rather than requiring that clients visit an agency, and it offers services to a diverse population through staff members who speak Spanish, Arabic, Somali, Cambodian or Vietnamese.

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