The Simple Beauty in a Smile

For over 20 years, Assistance League of the Chesapeake has been filling the most basic needs of our neighbors, and in turn, filling their hearts — and ours as well. You can help ensure this important work continues. Each year:

• We provide area school children with school uniforms and books at eight local Title I schools.
• We provide reading support to teachers and librarians and Meade Heights Elementary and Georgetown East Elementary schools. We also provide books to students and organize several enrichment activities that promote positive behaviors for an effective learning environment.
• Our Kids On The Block puppets perform an anti-bullying show for area second graders.
• We lead sing-alongs for seniors at local assisted-living facilities.
• We provide greeting cards to local seniors who have few or no visitors.
• We gather basic supplies for young mothers-to-be so they have what they need to start their babies off with the best lives possible.
• We provide clothing, furniture and other types of aid to those in need.

Please join us — volunteer your time or donate — to help us keep these programs going when more people than ever need our support. Your time or donation will ease someone else’s worries, and turn their lives into ones filled with pride and hope for the future.

Any support you give will have a meaningful impact in our community as we reach more students in need and spread more joy and hope.

What could be better?

LEARN about our Kids In Need school clothing program and our work in local Title I schools.

“Our Kids In Need program takes a village, and our members are responsible for providing school uniforms to thousands of students. Sometimes it’s the only new item of clothing these students will receive all year.”

Marty Sippel, Kids In Need Uniform Program Chair

Operation School Bell^®

Kids In Need (KIN): Assistance League provides new school uniforms plus winter hats and gloves to students and seven elementary and one middle school in our county. This year we will give over 3,600 uniforms to in-need students.

Kids on the Block: Our volunteers and their toddler-sized puppets visit second graders throughout the county to talk with students about bully.

Project Literacy: Our volunteers work in classrooms, donate books to students, and organize several enrichment activities that promote an effective learning environment.

Smiles for Seniors

Greeting Cards: We provide a personal connection by sending greeting cards signed by our members to residents at eight assisted living facilities on eight holidays throughout the year.

Sing-Alongs: This interactive sing-along program allows seniors in assisted living to enjoy the songs they remember from their youth.

Neighbors in Need

Community Outreach: We provide clothing, furniture and other types of aid to those in need.

Showers of Love: Our members hold a shower and contribute baby items for expectant mothers via local non-profits that support struggling mothers and their children.