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Handby: Kate Perri

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Menlo Kids:This Christian organization focuses on helping kids come closer to God, while teaching them new skills, and provid-ing child care while the parents are at work. They have an abundace of volunteers, ranging in age from 15 to 80.

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My New Red Shoes:This nationwide company provided new shoes and new clothing to more than 7,500 homeless and low-income children. During the holiday season, they host a drive, where they give participants the shoes sixes of children so they can buy shoes specific to the kids wants and size. The parents then can give the gift as a Christmas present, birthday gift, or whatever they want. A local group of girls took on eight pairs of shoes over the weeken, buying, wrapping and then finally delivering them to the drop off center.

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TO TACKLE GENDER EQUALITY, A GIRL SCOUT TROOP ASKED 50 WOM-EN WHAT THEIR IDEA WORLD FOR GIRLS WOULD LOOK LIKE. THEY TOOK ALL OF THEIR ANSWERS AND CREATED A WORD CLOUD THEY THEY HUNG UP AROUND DOWNTOWN

MENLO PARK.

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Cards by Agi: Agi Maiden, a Menlo Park res-ident, creates flower arrange-

ments with flowers she collects from local florists, and pairs

them with cards she makes in her free time (see cover), all the while homeschooling her

daughter, coaching pre-olympic gymnasts, and working another job. She sends them to hospitals for free, in hopes that families and friends of patients can use them to make their day a little

brighter.

Hotel de Zinc:Hotel de Zink is Palo Alto’s only homeless shelter. For the past 21 years twelve midpeninsula churches have taken turns each month providing food and shel-ter for 15 or so homeless men and women. Every evening one church opens its doors to the homeless for the night and its congregation provides home-cooked meals for the guests. Night supervisors hired by Hotel de Zink’s operator, InnVision, attend to the shelter’s guests’ needs. Hotel de Zink shelters roughly 100 homeless each year. Local families sign up to make and serve dinner for one night. In months prior, sign ups have filled up in as fast as two hours.

The bottom left and the top right show an inside view of the kitch-en. Bottom right are bags the chil-drens ministries have decorated as gifts.

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