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VOLUNTEER

do good, feel good

KWC’s main activity involves volunteering at many nonprofit organizations. This past year our 140+ members volunteered over 12,850 hours at local charities. Learn more about the local charities we support below.

Adopt An Angel

We provide necessities to students at Humble Elementary School who have been identified by the school nurse as needing assistance.  Adopt An Angel is held twice a year, once in the fall and once in the spring.

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Liaisons: Paula Labor

& Ginger Burklow

Feed My Lambs

Members prepare and distribute lunch to shut-ins and needy families twice a month to low-income apartments in Porter Heights.

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Liaisons:

1st Thursday: Claudette McKee

4th Thursday: Anne Thorness

Kingwood Library

Members help with Patron Counts and FOLK.  FOLK, Friends of the Library, Kingwood, sells used books to help support the library at either the little store inside the library or through Amazon.

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Liaisons:

Bookstore - Karen Brown

Patron Count - Lynne Walters

Local Elementary Schools

We support the efforts of Humble ISD elementary schools in the following ways: teacher assistance projects such as laminating, copying, coloring and assembling books; mentoring elementary students, and support vision and hearing testing.

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Liaisons:

Hearing & Vision:

Dianne Evans

North Bend Elementary:

Janice Himpele

River Pines Elementary:

Anne Ferrell

Community Events

This project encompasses volunteer activities in support of other local organizations. 

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Liaison: Kathy Adkins

Humble Area Assistance Ministries (HAAM)

This organization is a community coalition supported by donations and Resale Shop proceeds, which provide social services and food to those in need. At Humble Area Assistance Ministries, KWC members volunteer in the Resale Shop, the Food Pantry, Social Services and help with clerical duties.  We support the Back to School program and during the holiday season we help bag and distribute food items.

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Liaisons: Judy Thigpen

& Jacquie Spell

The Gathering Place

Members provide one on one supervision/companionship to persons with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and Dementia so that their regular caregivers can have a much-needed break. This program is sponsored by Kingwood Methodist Church.

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Liaisons: 

Janice Ferguson, 

Nan Johnston & Stacy Smith

Society of St. Stephen (SOSS)

We volunteer at this social service agency by bagging groceries in the food pantry, distributing clothing to clients and stocking and distributing holiday food bags.

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Liaisons: Betty Coburn

& Linda Berner

The Village Centers

 The Village Centers is a nonprofit located in Kingwood.  They serve those with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities. We provide help in their thrift shop, day center classrooms and on class trips (i.e. bowling).

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Liaison: Kinsey Crabtree

Mission Northeast

The Mission provides for basic needs, for those in need at no cost and without consideration of age, race, sex, ethnicity, religious preference, or sexual orientation.

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Liaison: Cindy Cipriano

Project Mammogram

Project Mammogram is a Northeast Hospital Foundation Program, in conjunction with Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital, offering free mammograms and appropriate follow-up treatments (ultrasounds, biopsies, etc.) to qualifying area women who have no insurance or whose incomes are not low enough to qualify for Medicaid.

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Liaison:  Fran Linton

Community Wide

Food Drive

We volunteer by collecting food, gift cards and monetary donations once or twice a year.  We sort the food and donate it to local food pantries (HAAM, Mission Northeast & SofSS). We also, donate the gift cards and money to those charities. 

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Liaisons: Lesley Lowry

& Janis Fowler

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