Greetings from Los Angeles!
I am writing to you from the City of Angels while awaiting some medical care and then we will leave to continue our life on the road.
The goodness in this is that I can be here for our Be A Santa program!
I missed everyone last year. We were in South Africa for the holidays, and it was wonderful.
And it’s great to be with my Penny Lane family this year.
There’s been a lot of pivoting going on in the world with Covid, climate change, economic considerations, political division, and conspiracy theories.
With the emphasis on fear mongering in the medias, our focus must be on the health of our kids, mentally, physically and spiritually.
This is why Penny Lane is so especially important. The focus has always been on creating programs that serve the youngsters and their particular needs. They already have in place the kind of care we would want for our own family.
In fact, Penny Lane’s programs have been so groundbreaking they have been requested by family care facilities all over the USA. Penny Lane shares them for free.
I have always loved the transitional housing program, the life skills classes, and job support networks for the teens as they prepare and launch into the world. They have incredible resources for the teens in the TAY programs. And centers for runaway and homeless youth.
We built C.A.R.E. labs to teach computer skills to the kids, so they could compete in the jobs market as well as create their own work.
The EDGY programs support our LGBTQ+ youth.
Families have resources in Penny Lane too–everything from therapeutic services to housing and adoption programs.
I am truly amazed at how Penny Lane has been able to continue to serve children and families with excellence during seemingly impossible odds.
You who have donated over the years have worked together with us to make the holidays happy for these kids, must celebrate with me, this incredible organization, and the woman who pioneered it, Ive Markovitz.
I celebrate you for making this all happen, for giving meaning the the holidays for me, and showing these kids and their caregivers the true meaning of this season.
Join with me again and share what you can to continue our now long-standing tradition of creating a very happy holiday season for these children.
Happy Holidays!
Much love,
Patricia