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Dear Friend, Your 2020 holiday gatherings may look different, but that doesn't have to change their true focus of love and gratitude. We are deeply grateful for you! You’ve made critical work possible this year to meet urgent needs in your community. You can continue to fuel recovery for people facing hunger and homelessness this holiday. Eight-year-old Beau and his mom Laurie weren’t always homeless. But their lives unraveled when Laurie lost her salon job after it closed from Covid-19 impacts. Her prolonged unemployment moved to hungry nights, and then to homelessness. “This all just seems so unreal,” she says. “Time loses meaning and you’re just reacting to one bad thing after the next.” Thanks to partners like you, VOA staff have helped Laurie and Beau, who now have a roof over their heads, and are helping Laurie find work. Your gifts offer real solutions and newfound hope for individuals and families like Laurie and Beau. I don’t normally write this, but the number of families we're responding to has risen steeply from pandemic impacts—like lost jobs, evictions and other struggles. Please open your heart to provide help and hope. Give as generously as you can this holiday. Just $75 can help provide hot meals and a safe place to rest a family’s heads in the upcoming holidays. We are connected as a community. And your gift to VOA will go far for your hurting neighbors this holiday season, towards emergency support for families who desperately need it during Covid-19. With sincere gratitude for you this Thanksgiving and always, Mike King P.S. Covid-19 may change how we celebrate holidays, but not our holiday's focus: Gratitude and Love. Your caring gift will go far for seniors, families and children in crisis. Thank you for what you can give!
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