BetterALife

Goal: $10,000.00

Specific Need

BetterALife is growing weekly. We have around 20 - 40 children in our weekly homework club on Tuesday evenings whom we provide a hot meal for; 50-100 children each week are provided lunch bags for the weekend to eat; 150 families per week are provided groceries for home and 20-40 children per month are provided life skills lessons in cooking classes. Your donation will allow more children to enter our programs as we continue growing to more areas to help more children in need. Each week, we spend around $1500 in just food costs, and they are rapidly growing. We need your help to keep growing with the number of children who need our help right here.

Mission

BetterALife is a nonprofit organization that provides children and families with food, educational assistance, and life-skill services. Our mission is to feed anyone who says, "I am hungry."

We show individuals the educational and job-related opportunities they can and can pursue and inspire hope for a bright future. Every child should know they are loved, cared for, and not forgotten.

We believe that providing food, educational assistance, and life-skill services can help break the cycle of poverty and create a brighter future for individuals and families in need. Our programs provide individuals with the resources they need to succeed, inspire hope, and empower them to pursue their dreams.

Profile

A child comes home after school who ate lunch, around 10:30 am to 11ish. It is now around 3 pm, and they are coming home off the bus, going to their empty apartment as the parent(s) are at work, and opening the fridge for a snack. They see nothing. They then go to the cabinet and look there; nothing is found again. Frustrated, they sit down to work on homework and cannot focus because of the hunger pains, so they go outside to play instead to distract themselves. This puts the child behind in school and creates confusion, anger, and hurt, and at seven years old, they don't understand why.

Our focus is to feed any child who says they are hungry. If a child states they are hungry, we take that statement seriously and ensure they have a full belly. It's not a child's fault they are hungry. We pack 200 bags of lunch, snacks, and breakfast each month, provide cooking classes for life skills, and ensure weekly education assistance in our homework club with a hot dinner. We have also positioned our food pantry within walking distance of three income-based communities in Purcellville that we serve so the families and children do not struggle to get help.