Sponsor Spotlight: The Global Fund For Children
Sunday, June 13th, 2010We’d like to introduce you to another one of our amazing donors, The Global Fund For Children.
When you think of “Operation Shower” you probably think of our Showers in a Box or our big group baby showers. While you’d be right to think that, one of our goals is that you’ll also think of Operation Shower as a fun and creative group of people who desire to reach beyond the baby gifts and help create a community of caring and nuturing support for the moms we honor. If you want to think of us as hilarious too, we won’t stop you. As we move forward, we keep working on ways to include other services and ideas that help support these deserving moms. 
We’ve seen just how many of these women have more than one child (sidebar: as if it’s not hard enough to be pregnant when your spouse is deployed…but to have other children, too, to single parent!) so one little thing we’ve started to do is to provide a gift for the siblings as well. We at Operation Shower LOVE books and are big education advocates, so to have The Global Fund for Children on board is such a great fit! 
At our recent Red, White and Coo shower we set up “The Sibling Station” where moms could come and pick out a gift for the little ones at home. Some of the gifts were books donated by The Global Fund For Children. Moms also received more books as part of their Showers In A Box. You know what they say, “Reading is Fundamental”….did we just age ourselves with that reference?
We recently found out that they have committed to sending us another 180 books for our boxes. Thank you, Global Fund For Children!
Here is a little more about our fantastic donor from their website:
“The Global Fund for Children’s mission is to advance the dignity of children and youth around the world. GFC pursues its mission by making small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with some of the world’s most vulnerable children and youth, complemented by a dynamic media program that, through books, documentary photography, and film, highlights the issues affecting children and celebrates the global society in which we all live.”