Providing a Hand UP

Our Community Partners Continue to Provide a Hand UP!

July 11, 2014

Your support helps our community partners like Big Creek People in Action, Inc. in War, West Virginia, continue to give their communities a hand UP through tutoring and educational assistance, computer literacy and vocational training, home repairs and utilities assistance and much more. 

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