Christine's Heroes
Latest Hero
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Claire King receiving the Christine's Hero Award from John Gianacaci
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We are proud to announce our newest Christine's Hero, Claire King. Claire is in the seventh grade at Timberlane Middle School in Pennington, NJ. Claire first became involved with Christine's Hope for Kids at her school after collecting used sporting equipment. She became interested in helping other kids and liked what the Foundation was doing. She and her friend Bryn decided to sell rock candy at the science fair and donated the money raised to CHFK. But she didn’t stop there! After she read about our backpack for kids drive she enlisted the help of her sister Elizabeth and brothers David and John to assemble backpacks and give them to us for the drive. Claire is a real go-getter and passionate about helping others in need. Next, she decided to hold a bake sale. With the help of her friends they organized, held meetings, baked, made signs, and manned the table. The girls made a whopping $540.00. That sure is a lot of cookies!! While the funds are much needed to support us, it is not about the money Claire raises. It is her kind, generous, and compassionate spirit to help kids in need that has touched our hearts. She is the perfect example of all that can happen when one kid wants to make a difference. We are proud and honored to have Claire King represent us as “Christine’s Hero."
Christine’s Heroes is all about ordinary people doing extraordinary things…just like Christine.
It started with one person sending us a letter. In that letter they wanted to recognize a person whom, they felt, emulated the characteristics we all so admired in Christine; kindness, generosity, helping others, getting involved with community projects, helping at their church, just going a little above and beyond.
So we nominated that person to be Christine’s Hero for the month, and it just took off from there.
Now we have nominations for Christine’s Hero of the Month flowing in, and we love it!
If you know someone who you think deserves to be a Christine’s Hero, please send us the nomination with a letter of support, and we’ll take it from there.
Along with raising money to help underprivileged children, Christine’s Hope for Kids Foundation promotes the message that each person has the power to make this world better through simple acts of kindness and basic respect.
Ordinary people who do extraordinary things – that’s what Christine was all about, and that’s what Christine’s Heroes is all about.