Students, Scouts reach out to Nazareth Home

Showing their hand-made blankets that were delivered to Nazareth Home in East Chicago are members of Girl Scouts of Highland Troop 188. In the back, from left, are Lane Terry, Victoria Shamel and Mackenzie Lewis. In the front are Taylor Breidenbaugh and Cameron Terry.

March 9, 2011

HIGHLAND | When sixth-graders at Warren Elementary School donated a basket of gifts to Nazareth Home in East Chicago, the children at the foster home received everything from diapers and bibs to baby food and formula.

The items were delivered by the Girl Scouts of Highland Troop 188 who also added five soft, no-sew blankets they had made at one of their Scout meetings. During their Nazareth Home visit, they had a chance to read, play and feed some of the children. Another visit by the girls in February included a surprise delivery of 23 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. Extra boxes were collected when the Scouts asked customers if they wanted to buy additional cookies for the foster home.

Nazareth Home, a ministry of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, is a licensed foster home that provides a loving, caring and stable beginning for medically compromised children and infants who have to be removed from their families as a result of abuse, neglect, or the parents' inability to provide appropriate care.

For more information call (219) 947-8500 or visit www.nazarethhome.com.

This article was originally published in The Northwest Indiana Times.

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