Druid Heights Community Development Corporation (DHCDC) is pleased to submit our Framing Hope Impact Story. Our mission is to cause, encourage and promote community self empowerment through the development of economic, educational, employment and affordable housing opportunities. The Framing Hope program directly supports our mission by providing resources and gifts to the community as we work to build affordable homes and people. We serve approximately 500 children each year and 3,000 families in a community of 10, 114 residents.
The Druid Heights CDC, in addition to many programs, oversees and manages 22 single parent transitional housing units for the homeless families serving a minimum of 75 people. Of the 75 residents, 53 are children who received great holiday gifts. The parents benefited from Gifts In Kind by receiving small appliances and household goods that are not standard to transitional housing.
Thank you to Walmart store 3481 for their support of the Druid Heights & their continued efforts to help make our community a better place.
This week beginning Monday, December 13, 2010 residents from the community came to the community center to assist in wrapping gifts for financially distressed families. On Saturday, December 18, 2010, the regularly scheduled monthly community meeting will become a Holiday party with at least 50 volunteers from the community wrapping as many as 200 gifts to be distributed to the community.
As the Director of Community Resources, I am amazed at the quality of goods and the positive outcomes we were able to produce with the assistance of Framing Hope International Gifts In Kind program. Our story is one of gratitude to the Gifts in Kind program.