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Lullabye Foundation update

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October 7th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Atlantic, Iowa) – Founders of the Lullabye Foundation acknowledge we’re all aware of how much the Covid pandemic has affected most of our society. But despite Covid and its affects on businesses, schools, activities, and even our churches, from early in 2020 through today, Lullabye has still been able to help many children in need and at risk of slipping through the cracks of our society’s social service safety net. The Foundation serves children in both Iowa and Illinois.

Lullabye Board Members coordinate closely with schools, orphanages, Social Service Agencies, Park Districts, etc. who work with kids, identify needs and address those needs.  The non-profit partners with organizations that genuinely want to help kids and make sure the children they serve receive the goods and services needed to help them be the best they can be – without delay. CEO Pastor Sally Meyer says Lullabye has helped children in Iowa, through:

  • Project Sweet Dreams
  • Support of Groups of Kids associated with the Atlantic, Iowa, Community Schools
  • Speaker’s Bureau—several members of our Lullabye Board are willing to speak at various organizations and events.
  • Lullabye’s Jim and Gert Hunt Memorial Golf Tournament
  • Bill Of Rights for Kids
  • Lullabye’s Gallery of Kids

Other projects include:

+ Going International/ helping many children through the Malawi Orphan Care Project, by feeding, offering spiritual and educational guidance, and sports activities daily to 800 kids.

+ The construction of a playground for the Still Waters Kids Home, Inc, in the Philippines. Their previous playground had been destroyed in a typhoon. The new playground was received with great joy!

+ A substantial gift to CASA of Champaign County went to serve 380 children in Foster Care county-wide. CASA’s mission is to find these children safe, healthy, and permanent homes.

+ Through a school in northern Illinois Lullabye generously supported a family devastated by a fire which took the lives of two young girls and destroyed all the family’s belongings.

+ In Southwest Iowa, school personnel helped the Foundation assist a high school girl whose family could not afford her extracurricular activities. We helped. She then took part in her activities

+ A guidance counselor in a school in northern Illinois alerted Lullabye to a need for dollars to send a homeless and recently orphaned boy to a Park District-provided Summer Camp.

+ Working with one of the Foundation’s Northern Illinois partner schools, we provided dollars for playground equipment geared toward Special Needs Kids.

+ At present, Pastor Meyer says they are looking into the possibility of working with the Cunningham Children’s Home in Urbana, IL.

If you would like to learn more about the Foundation, got to https://www.lullabyefoundation.org/