| Families Adopting Families |
We are looking forward to implementing this program for many reasons. Over the years UsMoms has been
consistently supported by so many wonderful families and individuals. Along with monetary support most
of our supporters ask to get involved in a hands on capacity. In the past we lacked an organized means of
being able to utilize these offers in a constructive way. Now we can. So enjoy the fun and encourage your
friends and families to read our website. We thank everyone for supporting UsMoms and these deserving
families.
consistently supported by so many wonderful families and individuals. Along with monetary support most
of our supporters ask to get involved in a hands on capacity. In the past we lacked an organized means of
being able to utilize these offers in a constructive way. Now we can. So enjoy the fun and encourage your
friends and families to read our website. We thank everyone for supporting UsMoms and these deserving
families.
AN INVITATION TO THE COMMUNITY FROM UsMoms Community Projects:
As soon as the free food program is re-instated, UsMoms is launching our a major fund raising drive. The
purpose of this drive is to get every one of our single parent families "adopted” by a family that is already self-
reliant. This project will be called "Families Adopting Families”
We have built a program that can provide a unique opportunity for children, youth and teens to learn first
hand the power of change through getting involved in a pro-active, solution based, community project that
rewards the giver as much as the receiver. Below is a list of the interactive web pages that we have created as
part of this program.
The interactive web pages will provide:
• How breakfast and lunch programs in schools can change a whole community
• How feeding the hungry has proven to reduce crime, substance abuse and violence
• How other children have initiated programs in their neighbourhoods, schools and communities that
have changed the whole neighbourhood.
As soon as the free food program is re-instated, UsMoms is launching our a major fund raising drive. The
purpose of this drive is to get every one of our single parent families "adopted” by a family that is already self-
reliant. This project will be called "Families Adopting Families”
We have built a program that can provide a unique opportunity for children, youth and teens to learn first
hand the power of change through getting involved in a pro-active, solution based, community project that
rewards the giver as much as the receiver. Below is a list of the interactive web pages that we have created as
part of this program.
The interactive web pages will provide:
- • A monthly newsletter that will feature the success stories of families that are "adopted” Click here for
"Newsletter"
• Letters from families who have been adopted, and as well letters from adopting families that share their
experiences of working together for the benefit of all Click here for "Successful Adoptions"
• Games that teach the hard facts about poverty induced hunger in a gentle way – for adolescents Click
here for "Fun Page".
• Updates on legislation that either reduces or contributes to hunger in low income households – ideal
for teens who need to know what their voting rights can achieve when they come of age. Click here for
"Legislation News"
• Nutrition and health education that will enhance the reader’s ability to make good choices in their own
lives. Click here for "Tasty Tidbits" page.
• Ideas for relieving food insecurity through gardening in plots and containers or community gardens.
Click here for "Gardening page"
• Jokes and riddles that bring children a safe and sensitive message about poverty and hunger. Click here
for "Fun Page".
• Food drives, food related events that the reader can either participate in or learn how to initiate
• Stories from around the world where hunger has been a driving force behind building or creating
effective solutions in different communities - Click here for stories.
• Opportunities for volunteering such as:
- helping with the website, helping at community events where we have tables for selling food and
fun items, helping with the Annual Christmas Party, helping with packing food boxes, helping with
the cooking classes, helping make up Infant Welcome Baskets for the newborn babies, helping on
our farm, and lots more…Click here to sign up for volunteering.
- • We will post our challenge "Adopt A Family” results to keep people up to date on how many families
have been adopted and how many are needing to be adopted, including the number of new families who
sign up each week or month. See the "Home" page for up to date totals.
• Any of the children or teens who have ideas for these web pages can submit their contributions for
publication. To send us your submissions please email us at admin@us-moms.com
• Every quarter (3months) we will select volunteer youth and teens to be "UsMoms News Team”
reporters for interviewing people and writing news stories that pertain to hunger and poverty. This will
be a great opportunity for aspiring writers and photographers to get to work within the media realm and
see their work submitted on our site. Click here to sign up for volunteering.
We see this program as a project that will educate children, youth, teens and parents
about:
• "The chicken and the egg” effect of poverty and hunger
• How children are unnecessarily labelled as slow learners or children with behaviour problems when
really all they need is enough healthy food.
• How children from well fed homes can be undernourished and therefore mislabelled also.
• How impoverished children are mistreated, bullied and harmed because there is a false perception of
poverty being self-induced.
• How breakfast and lunch programs in schools can change a whole community• Facts about the amount of food that goes unused and into landfills
• How breakfast and lunch programs in schools can change a whole community
• How feeding the hungry has proven to reduce crime, substance abuse and violence
• How other children have initiated programs in their neighbourhoods, schools and communities that
have changed the whole neighbourhood.