Best Buy Donates Computers To Help Single Parents In Need Improve Their Job Skills

 Best Buy Donates Computers To Help Single Parents In Need Improve Their Job Skills  Uncategorized EHHF's Posts
Feb 032013
 

Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation is grateful for – and moved by – the generosity of Best Buy.

Best Buy Helps

Best Buy, the store well-known for selling top of the line electronics, is in touch with the reality of today’s economy. Best Buy has just donated computer equipment to EHHF which will be used to help unemployed and under-employed single parents improve their job skills!

Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation assists disadvantaged, single parent families with their essential needs for food and goods. We believe however that (in the words of C.S. Lewis) “The proper aim of giving is to put the recipients in a state where they no longer need our gifts.” That’s why we’re launching EHHF’s Seminars and Workshops to improve our aid recipients’ job skills by teaching Computer Literacy, Money Management and Resume Writing, and more.
Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation will continue providing immediate “survival assistance” but our ultimate goal is to enable disadvantaged single parents to achieve self-sufficiency. Self-sufficiency makes individuals proud, parents competent and children thrive!

That’s why Best Buy’s generous donation of two (all-in-one) computers, a router and even anti-virus software is so important us. It is a step toward a permanent solution: it will allow EHHF empower struggling single parents with skills that will help them get good jobs.
Best Buy’s generosity especially in today’s economic climate – when for many poverty seems to be a life’s sentence – is priceless to the disadvantaged single parents Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation serves! Thank you Best Buy for caring about our community!

EHHF To Welcome More Single Parents in Need

 EHHF To Welcome More Single Parents in Need  EHHF Events
Jan 162013
 

With the holiday season behind us, Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation is plunging into a whirlwind of activities. This coming Saturday (01/19/13) we’ll hold a meeting for 30 disadvantaged single parent families to determine the eligibility and specific needs of each. (Some of the families will benefit from our kitchen essentials and accessories give-away in late January.)

Single parents who are currently jobless or under-employed shoulder more responsibilities and face more fears than married parents in the same situation. As single parents, they’re usually also sole providers. It’s essential to elevate some of the pressure they’re under and help them get back on their feet.

We’re grateful to the sponsors of the upcoming get-together. Our thanks go to:

who have pledged to make the planned meeting warm and hospitable by providing foods and drinks.
All three are well-known and popular brands, their willingness to support our cause further highlights their positive impact on the communities they serve. (We’re certain that their generosity won’t go unnoticed!)

This is the first of a series of meetings which will help EHHF focus its efforts on particular recipients and their needs during the year.

In its “spare time”, Enlightened Helping Hand Foundation builds productive alliances, plans its next collection drive and – of course! – work on programs and events for 2013 is in the works. As a matter of fact it will be announced on our blog, next month….