A Day in the Life of Your United Way Investment.....

8:00 a.m. Youth from local Monroe County 4-H clubs wrap up an early morning meeting to plan their next community project.

9:00 a.m. A single mother recently laid off from her job receives food from Faith Food Pantry in Nettleton.

10:00 a.m. Volunteers from the  Retired Senior Volunteer Program meet at the Arts Across the Ages Center to make casseroles for Women First cancer patients.

11:00 a.m. Senior citizens, disabled and home-bound clients of Amory Meals on Wheels enjoy a nutritious meal delivered right to their door.

Noon Children enjoy summer enrichment classes at United Way’s Arts Across the Ages Center.

1:00 p.m. A needy family is able to put food on empty shelves after having been served at the Amory Food Pantry.

2:00 p.m. Participants at First Friends Alzheimer’s Day Care are finishing up a day of music, crafts and fellowship.

3:00 p.m. Excited kids rush to their afternoon Girl Scout meetings wearing new uniforms purchased through a  United Way Scouting Venture Grant.       

4:00 p.m. A child with a cerebral palsy splashes happily in the pool as he begins his water therapy program at the Regional Rehabilitation Center Physical Therapy Department

5:00 p.m. The nightly meal is lovingly prepared at Faith Haven Children’s Shelter.

6:00 p.m.  You’re getting home from work, but things are just getting started at the Gardner Simmons Home for Girls and Alpha House Home for Boys.  With as many as twelve boys or girls at each home, there is always a flurry of activity.

7:00 p.m. Young people with drug or alcohol problems are counseled at an evening session led by the National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependency.

8:00 p.m. Volunteers finish packing 450 boxes of food to be distributed this week at the FAITH Food Pantry.

9:00 p.m. Survival, Inc. is called in by police to counsel with a family that has experienced a homicide.

10:00 p.m. Emergency medical equipment purchased with a United Way Venture Grant helps a local Volunteer Fire Department save the life of a man who is having a heart attack.

11:00 p.m. Boy Scouts enjoy a camp out with equipment purchased with a United Way Scouting Venture Grant.

Midnight A young wife and mother turns out her light and says a prayer of thanks for the Women First Cancer Support Group, who are helping her through a very difficult time.

1:00 a.m.  House parents at Faith Haven Children’s Shelter keep a watchful eye over all the children in their care.

2:00 a.m. A crisis call is answered by a Contact Helpline volunteer working the night shift.

3:00 a.m.  Area youth attend the Fellowship of Christian Athletes character building programs made possible by a United Way Venture Grant.

4:00 a.m. An abandoned baby is fed, clothed and comforted at the Sally Kate Winter’s Children’s Shelter.

5:00 a.m. A family’s house burns and the American Red Cross is there to give them shelter, clothes and counseling.

6:00 a.m. Contact Helpline volunteers make their first calls to the clients in their Reassurance Program. These are elderly, disabled, or home-bound people who volunteers call each day just to check in and reassure them that someone who cares is as close as their phone.

7:00 a.m. Teachers prepare for a special class project made possible by a United Way Venture Grant to the Quality Education Foundation (QEF).

8:00  a.m. You are asked to give to United Way at your workplace. You think of all the people who have been helped in the last 24 hours and give generously.