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Letter from the President

Kathy DeanDear Volunteers and Donors,

The past year was filled with many challenges but also many incredible blessings fro the Uplift Organization. It is hard to believe that 2013 has come to an end, and we are into our third month of 2014.

After serving with Uplift the past nine years it is still hard for me to imagine anyone being able to survive the intense cold weather that we are having. We have had so many cases of frost bite this winter. Please continue to keep our friends on the streets in your prayers.

We were blessed by every single donation last year, along with 2,514 volunteers that gave 13,602 hours of their time making it possible for us to continue to reach out to the homeless of Kansas City. We were able to serve 23,214 people and we visited 5,340 camps.

We continue to receive support from our loyal and committed donors and for that I am thankful! Without your generosity we would not be able to continue reaching out to the homeless as we have for the past 24 years.

We have been able to complete our kitchen upgrade, bringing our facility up to code. We are very grateful to the William T. Kemper Foundation for their generous donation which helped make this possible.

There still has been no vote pertaining to the proposed new city ordinance. There were to be meetings in January, but that didn’t take place. I have no knowledge of when the meetings may occur, but I will post any decisions that are made on our website.

I don’t know what this year holds in store for us, but I do know that at each stop we make on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday nights, we will be greeted with grateful smiles and gratitude for what we are able to do for our friends that have nothing. I look forward to moving boldly into 2014 with your support. There are so many people in need and I know together we will be able to make such a difference.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”

God Bless you all!
Kathy Dean

Only 5 days until SPRING!!!