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Improvement Plan
Helping Hands Needs A Hand…Your Hand!

We Need Your Help to Raise $100,000 by 2010!

Safer neighborhoods. Better schools. Quality healthcare. Do these concepts seem rather distant or are they, perhaps, a reality? Well, at Helping Hands Community Outreach Center, we are committed to making it a reality in the lives of children, young adults, and seniors in the Drexel, Ohio neighborhood. How? Helping Hands anticipates building a valued recreation building right within the Drexel streets. This recreation building will be the pride and joy of all of Drexel’s citizens by providing the young, the old, and the middle-aged a place of refuge, activity, healthcare, and education.

Instead of children directing their inquisitive minds into the activities of the local gang meeting, Helping Hands would rather steer these youngsters into a haven of healthy sports and rugged physical activity. How? By showing them a better life at the proposed recreational building’s indoor basketball court. Rather than your senior next door neighbor feeling unsteady and unsafe strolling the streets of Drexel for exercise, Helping Hands promises him or her the ability to take a leisurely walk safely and comfortably. Where? Right at Helping Hands’ proposed recreational building, where we have planned building an indoor track especially for seniors.

The cost of the entire new recreational building project is $1,000,000—10% of the amount we at Helping Hands need to raise. By providing your monetary support for a worthwhile cause, you can help us help the members of the Drexel community lead a better life. Donate just $10,000, $5000, $1000, $100, $25, $15, or $10, and you will be showing your support tremendously. We appreciate any dollar amount that you pledge toward our openhanded efforts! When you pledge your dollars, you are giving the gift of compassion while assisting Helping Hands in our full-scale efforts to give Drexel’s low-income residents the tools, and, more importantly, the chance to lead a successful life.

Helping Hands’ proposed recreational building has plans to become a retreat for daily recreational activity. Our proposed building will serve as a community center that will offer arts and crafts, a large computer lab, indoor basketball court, college satellite, nutrition classes, and after-school programs for the citizens of our very own Drexel neighborhood. We are proud to serve our neighborhood, developing it, enhancing the social structure, and enabling our community members a chance to lead a better, more productive life.

Over the next months, our goal is to raise $100,000. By March 2010, we hope to have raised enough funds to begin the construction of our proposed recreational building and open its doors for after-school programs, classes, and access to computer labs that very same year! The new decade will be the beginning of a new and better life for many of Drexel’s residents!

Helping Hands is a non-profit social service agency solely Ohio neighborhoods with two locations Trotwood and Wilmington Ohio. We have serviced over 1500 families through our abuse and neglect programs, housing counseling, life-skills development, teen pregnancy education, computer training and human services programs. Our current community center, houses just 15 users in our computer lab, and has insufficient space for the abundant number of programs our community needs to successfully propel us into the next decade!

Give Helping Hands a lift! A small gift of $25, $15, or $10 is enough to start!

If you can donate a small gift, you would be giving a young, school-aged child the option of choosing a better path in life. Instead of playing dice on the local street corners, he would be shooting hoops at the proposed recreational building’s indoor basketball court in either the sweltering sun or the frigid snows of Ohio. Envision this: A welfare mother buys only sugary foods for her family, as this is all she knows. However, at the recreational building, Helping Hands has proposed the start of nutritional classes so that mothers can learn how to shop for healthy groceries and put wholesome meals on the table for their families. The proposed recreational building will have enough room for many more classes just like these!

Every town has citizens who may be underprivileged, living with hardship, dealing with violence, coping with high levels of teen pregnancy—that is why, all the more, you are being called upon to help your fellow citizens. Help the Drexel neighborhood members walk into the next decade with their head held high, their heart filled with hope, and with the tools necessary to lead a better life, a life of better choices, a life of quality education, sports and the arts. Please, make your contribution today.

P. S. Remember, show your compassion toward your fellow citizens! Pledge even a small donation toward the proposed recreational building. Any contribution will lead to giving a better life to the low-income individuals in the Drexel, Ohio neighborhood. You can make a difference!