We hear frequently how difficult it is for many families to make ends meet on tight budgets as the cost of everything has gone up.\u00a0\u00a0Northern Virginia is no exception when it comes to families struggling to provide adequate food and clothing for their children, even though our area is generally well off.\u00a0\u00a0Assistance League of Northern Virginia supports children in need through multiple programs for students in low-income families in elementary schools throughout Northern Virginia.<\/p>\n
Each year Assistance League hears from our partner schools about increasing needs and we have responded by expanding our programs to serve more students.\u00a0\u00a0In addition to our monthly Weekend Food program, we distribute clothing several times a year, including coats, gloves and hats for the cold weather as well as sneakers throughout the year.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the last few years, we have begun providing toiletry kits to 5th<\/sup>\u00a0and 6th<\/sup>\u00a0grade students as the basics needed for good hygiene can also strain family budgets.\u00a0\u00a0We have expanded the number of brand-new books we provide to students by adding \u201cBuild A Child\u2019s Library\u201d book fair events and additional Birthday Books programs.<\/p>\n Giving Tuesday 2023 is November 28th<\/sup>, and the theme of our campaign this year is\u00a0Help Kids in Need So They Can Succeed<\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Giving Tuesday is an opportunity to remember that true satisfaction and joy can be found by spreading happiness through our acts of kindness and generosity.<\/p>\n To do even more we need additional help from generous people in the community.\u00a0\u00a0A contribution to our Giving Tuesday campaign can help support the kids we serve so they are better prepared to succeed.\u00a0\u00a0Visit our web site\u00a0www.alnv.org<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about what we do and see how a contribution on Giving Tuesday can help kids in need.\u00a0\u00a0Giving Tuesday donations can be made any time starting November 14, 2023, by visiting:\u00a0https:\/\/givingtuesday.mightycause.com\/organization\/Assistance-League-Of-Northern-Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We hear frequently how difficult it is for many families to make ends meet on tight budgets as the cost of everything has gone up.\u00a0\u00a0Northern Virginia is no exception when it comes to families struggling to provide adequate food and clothing for their children, even though our area is generally well off.\u00a0\u00a0Assistance League of Northern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65463,"featured_media":8665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8666,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions\/8666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}