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Christel Aviles, KRA/Camden Job Coach, reported, “Every 40 seconds, someone suffers from a stroke! As part of KRA Corporation’s 5th Annual Community Care Day Campaign…a 2013 Support Our Local Hospitals initiative…KRA/Camden decided to reach out to a group of individuals who demonstrate exceptional strength and courage on a daily basis: stroke survivors.” Aviles, who served as KRA/Camden’s CCDC Coordinator, continued, “To accomplish our goal, we teamed up with Davida Godett*, Founder of Healthy Thoughts, who knows first-hand the needs of this inspiring group of people…as she herself is a three-time stroke survivor! Shower Me with Love, a Healthy Thoughts service project,
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Earlier this year, it was reported that Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center (Bon Secours), one of KRA/VIEW’s (Virginia Initiative for Employment not Welfare) major work Community Work Experience Volunteer Sites, had hosted a ceremony celebrating the efforts of VIEW participants who had been placed as volunteers at Bon Secours and then were hired by the medical facility!  See https://www.kra.com/company-news/kraview-volunteers-hiredand-honored/ Recently, as part of KRA’s 5th Annual Community Care Day Campaign (CCDC), Support Our Local Hospitals, KRA/VIEW chose Bon Secours as the site for their 2013 initiative and worked with the Volunteer Services Division to arrange for KRA/VIEW staff to visit
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Recently, as part of the 2013 Support our Local Hospitals initiative under KRA’s 5th Annual Community Care Day Campaign, 16 CTWorks staff and family members volunteered at the Newington VA Hospital, planting more than 400 flowers, bushes, and shrubbery around the facility to help beautify the grounds.  Jerry Santostefano, KRA Customer Service Representative, reported “It was a Saturday, spent on hands and knees, digging in the good earth to plant happiness and the sweet smell of flowers.  It was a warm day, so everyone gave up a little, um…sweat to help make life a bit sweeter for the deserving Veterans, who are
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On June 17, 2013, as part of KRA’s 5th Annual Community Care Day Campaign, Jahkesha Abraham, Program Manager, and Evelyn Stanley, Career Agent, KRA Youth Program in the Lower Savannah Region of South Carolina (SC), provided an afternoon of recreational activity for 15 residents of Morningside Assisted Living (Morningside) in Orangeburg, SC. After learning from Kathy Blackwood, Program Service Director, that Bingo was a favorite activity of the residents, Abraham and Stanley organized a Bingo Bash during Morningside’s activity hour. During the games, the atmosphere was packed with high energy and excitement…and a healthy dose of competition…as the players demonstrated their
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On Saturday, April 27, 2013, a group of students from the KRA/Lower Savannah, SC Youth Employability and Success (YES) Program*, volunteered at the 2013 Tri-County Veteran Stand Down, held at the YMCA in Orangeburg.  KRA/YES has been supporting the SCWorks Disabled Veteran Outreach Program since the 2012 KRA Community Care Day Campaign, Support Our Troops.   For that initiative, KRA/YES lent its support by collecting hundreds of toiletry items…toothpaste, toothbrushes, Q-tips, lotion, washcloths, soap, etc…and donating the large “care basket” to Gene Gartman, Sgt. First Class (U.S. Army Retired) and Ms. Donna Greene, SCWorks Veterans Supervisor, both of whom worked tirelessly to
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For the past 2+ months, KRA has been celebrating 2012 Community Care Day, a company-wide initiative that celebrates the joy of giving and sharing good works with customers and neighbors in the communities the firm serves.  This year, the company launched a Support Our Troops campaign, and KRA programs across the country rose to the occasion…many times with the cooperation and support of community-based partners…by collecting money and personal items for military personnel here and abroad, hosting special events for Veterans, and supporting local military events.  Reports have been published previously on several successful KRA projects, and below is yet another, launched by
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It was reported previously that the KRA/CTWorks One-Stop Career Center Program, in the Greater Hartford Region of North Central Connecticut, had volunteered to raise money for a very deserving local cause…the United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut.  To implement the campaign, which ran from October 1 through December 31, 2012, KRA staff from the four offices devised several unique activities.  One of which, Dress-Up Jeans Day, encouraged staff to pay $5 each Friday, up to October 31st, for “dressing up” in jeans.  Another activity, was a Paper T-Shirt Contest, wherein staff paid $1 to purchase ‘T-shirts” and then decorate them
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