Tenderloin Children Need Your Help This Summer

Summer should be a time for family vacations, summer camp, and relaxation. But for low-income families with children, summer is a time when child care, lunches, vaccinations, and back-to-school clothes add a strain to the budgets of barely surviving families. Those families turn to St. Anthony’s for help.

This summer, St. Anthony’s will provide services to over 1500 children in need. You can sponsor a “back to school” scholarship for a child. Make a donation to St. Anthony’s for a child to get vaccinations, school clothes, and more. We need to insure by July 25th that we can provide the necessary services for all the children who come to us throughout the summer. You can help low income children step into the new school year on the right foot.

Our Free Medical Clinic has the only free Pediatric care in the Tenderloin. We will see a 35% increase in children needing vaccinations and check-ups so they can attend school in the fall. Our Free Clothing Program will see a 38% increase in children needing back-to-school clothes. And our Free Dining Room has already seen a 33% increase in families with children who would otherwise receive their much needed meals at school.

Your donation of $20 can provide 2 weeks of lunches in the Dining Room during the summer months when a student is unable to rely on a school cafeteria.

Your donation of $50 can cover a medical check-up, back to school clothes, and a meal in the Dining Room.

Your donation of $100 can cover one child’s back-to-school support including vaccinations and a medical check-up; a trip to the clothing program; and a meal in the Dining Room.

Your donation of $1000 can provide a full day of back-to-school check-ups in the clinic, a full children’s service in the clothing program, and a day’s worth of children’s meals in the Dining Room.