LEOMINSTER The employees of Leominster Credit Union recently donated $350 to Kylee's Kare Kits for Kidz by holding a "Jeans Day." Throughout the year, employees pay to wear jeans to work and the funds raised are donated to various organizations.
Kylee McCumber is 11 and a fifth-grader at Southeast School. In September 2012 she started Kylee's Kare Kits for Kidz to help children who did not have enough food at home on the weekends.
Maila Berry of Leominster Credit Union was at a Montachusett Area Rotary Club meeting the day Kylee and her grandmother were the guest speakers. Ms. Berry was so impressed with Kylee's drive and caring spirit that she returned to LCU and proposed Kylee's organization be put on the list as a recipient of a Jeans Day. Naturally the employees jumped on board.
Kylee's Kare Kits for Kidz provides food every weekend for children in Leominster public schools. Each Friday the children receive a "kare kit," which includes cereal, juice, fruit cups, apple sauce, pudding, macaroni and cheese, chicken noodle soup, canned pasta, granola bars, fruit snacks and� peanut butter crackers. The contents of the kare kits vary week to week depending upon what they can purchase on sale or what may have been donated that week.
To contribute, contact Kylee at
kyleeskarekitsforkidz1@gmail.com">
kyleeskarekitsforkidz1@gmail.com or by mail to Kylee's Kare Kits for Kidz, 68 Main St., #564 Leominster, MA 01453.
