Remember all those prom gowns you donated at Leadership? Over 300 of them? The dresses were donated to three organizations to help make prom dreams come true for disadvantaged young ladies. We had an opportunity to attend the Friends of Wednesday's Child Formal Affair event a couple of weeks ago and witness the fun they had chooseing from the huge selection of dresses! These girls are all in foster care and without your generosity would
likely not have had the resources for prom dresses. In addition to the dresses, we had local BeautiControl Directors and Consultants there to do make-overs. It was great to see the transformation as they learned about how to apply make-up and find just the perfect dress. Thanks to all of you that helped make this dream come true!
Be sure to come to Celebration to see much more about this amazing event and the lives you touched!
On May 10th, W.H.O. will have its annual WHOland Mother’s Day Shopping event at a local free afterschool program, Trinity River Mission. Approximately 140 students, grades K-5, will have a chance to purchase BeautiControl products, jewelry, purses and more for their moms or other significant women in their lives in honor of Mother’s Day.
To buy the donated items, children have been earning points in their afterschool program through regular attendance, improved grades, good report cards, mentoring, etc. We just received the list of names and their points and we will be providing bank envelopes full of WHObucks that represent the number of points they earned. It’s a real life experience – the harder they worked in their afterschool program, the more points they earned, resulting in more bucks to spend on mom!
After selecting their gifts, with the help of personal shoppers, students will move to the gift bag table where other volunteers will package the items in gift bags with tissue paper and ribbon. They will leave that day with their gifts ready to present to the special women in their lives.
In addition to the shopping, we will be providing a pizza party for the students as well, thanks to generous monetary donations from the W.H.O. Board of Directors.
It’s a great day and an event we always look forward to. Moving a store across town is no small feat and certainly the W.H.O. staff could not do it alone! As always, we will be counting on many of our BeautiControl associates and our W.H.O. Board of Directors to help make it happen! We appreciate their help so much! Hope to have some pictures to share after the event.
Just a few reminders about W.H.O. happenings…..
- Please remember W.H.O. at your May Success Meetings. Get your $20 for 20 Years ribbon when
you make at least a $20 donation that day.
- Pre-register now for the W.H.O. Walk for just $20. Register online when you register for Celebration on BN. Pre-registration guarantees a Walk t-shirt! Onsite registration will be $25.
- New You for W.H.O. will be back at Celebration 2013! Watch for the ticket order form on Forms on File and order your tickets ahead of time to be automatically entered into the drawing for a make-up and hair makeover for the Annual Awards event. You could be one of the four lucky winners!
- We had such an awesome response to our Prom Dress Project request for prom dresses and we thank you for that! Watch for another opportunity to help those in need at Celebration. We will be collecting school supplies for approximately 315 foster children to help them prepare for a successful new school year. More details to come!
Thanks for all you do for W.H.O. Have a great weekend!
