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Newsletter - September 2024

Assisting underprivileged youth in the community with the resources and support needed to enjoy everyday life and to provide and promote opportunities from which each child may benefit.

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Temporary Warehouse Space Needed

November-December

Each year, LAAC assembles, stages and distributes hundreds of bicycles for our Christmas Wish Program.  The donated space we used the past few years is no longer available, so we need a new location to assemble and store these bicycles.  We only need this space for a few weeks as we prepare for our Christmas party in December.

  • Needed mid-November to mid-December (approximately 3 weeks)

  • Must be secure

  • Minimum 2000 sq ft

  • Evening and weekend access required

  • In Lodi or close by

 

If you have a space, or know someone who does, please contact us at 209-333-1056 or lodiadoptachild@gmail.com.

Christmas is Coming.  Already?

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Family/Child applications will be accepted starting Monday, October 14th

We will start accepting family & child applications for our 2024 Christmas Wish Program on October 14th.  Application forms will be available at our office with The Community Partnership for Families of San Joaquin at 100 E. Pine St, after October 1st.

 

Angel Cards will be available starting on Monday November 11th.  Gifts must be purchased and returned by Sunday, December 8th.

 

Our annual Christmas Party will be on Saturday, December 14th.

 

Detailed schedule, office hours and additional information about family applications and Angel Cards will be included in a holiday newsletter, and on our website, by early October.

We Love Volunteers

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Once again, we’ll be looking for volunteers to help with all aspects of acquiring and distributing gifts for 800+ children in need. Please let us know if you’d be willing to buy, sort, assemble, box, wrap, organize and distribute all those gifts. We’ll start in mid-October, though most of the work will be between mid-November and mid-December. You can sign up now, letting us know what tasks you’re willing and able to help with. Bi-lingual (English/Spanish) translators are particularly helpful.

 

Click here to learn more about volunteering and register:

https://www.lodiadoptachild.org/programs/volunteering

 

 

 

 

 

We will contact those registered as we develop our schedule, starting in October.

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Free Performance of

Tomas and the Library Lady

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This bi-lingual play tells the the boyhood story of Tomás Rivera and how he befriended a librarian in Iowa who encouraged him to read. Tomás, the child of migrant farm workers, became a writer, a professor, and a national education leader. He ultimately rose to become the Chancellor at the University of California, Riverside, and the campus library now bears his name. The play includes a cast of three with puppets and projections that create a magical journey of discovery. Ages 5+ 

 

FREE Performance

Sponsored by the Community Partnership for Families of San Joaquin (CPFSJ)

with support from Lodi Adopt-A-Child

Saturday, October 19 @ 10am

CPFSJ, 100 E. Pine St., Lodi

Social Media Intern Wanted

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Lodi Adopt-A-Child is in need of a social media intern to work with us for the Christmas Wish Program, October-December.  The intern will be responsible for posting about LAAC on our Facebook and Instagram account.  Must be familiar with social media, Facebook and Instagram. Being a bi-lingual (English/Spanish) speaker is a plus.  This is a part-time role, a few hours a week through the end of the year.

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