On April 4, 2017, representatives of the National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Houston Section, presented a check to Sonya Scott, Chief Operating Officer of West Houston Area Ministries (WHAM), to purchase school supplies for Education Matters, a program NCJW has supported for nine years now. NCJW Greater Houston Section is one of several organizations in WHAM, which runs the program which provides school supplies for over 100 children in need in grades K-12 attending HISD and Alief school districts. It predates NCJW’s Back 2 School Store, which provides supplies and clothing to children graduating from HISD’s HIPPY (Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youth) program.
Representing NCJW were Susan Whitman and Sharon Rance, Co-Vice Presidents for Community Service, and Carla Kaufman, NCJW chairman for WHAM.
Volunteers will be needed the week of August 9 to help sort and distribute supplies.
For more information about Education Matters or the Back 2 School Store, see www.ncjwhouston.org or email communityservice@ncjwhouston.org.
NCJW is a volunteer organization, inspired by Jewish values, that works to improve the quality of life for women, children, and families and to ensure individual rights and freedoms for all through its network of 90,000 members, supporters, and volunteers nationwide.