Community Corner
(Good) News & An Update from Simply Smiles
Simply Smiles wanted to take this opportunity to update you on how everyone is doing.
Dear Friends,
Thank you for your concern about the children in our care and for our staff in these challenging times. So many of you have sent messages and overtures of support over the past days. The Simply Smiles community is simply incredible!
We wanted to take this opportunity to update you on how everyone is doing.
Find out what's happening in Naugatuckfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
At Simply Smiles, we have made significant decisions in the last few days to adapt to the reality of the coronavirus on the global community:
- Our in-person Keep Hope Alive fundraising events in Connecticut have been canceled and switched to an online fundraiser.
- Our volunteer service trips have been canceled through August.
- Our U.S. staff is currently working remotely, and we have limited staff travel.
- Additional health and safety practices have been implemented organization-wide.
These are unprecedented, rapidly changing times. Yet, here’s what we do know:Our work can and must continue for the children who rely on us in Mexico and on the Reservation. In this update, we wanted to provide you with what is happening now at our program locations, how Simply Smiles is responding, and what you can do to help:
Find out what's happening in Naugatuckfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
Status: Reservation • South Dakota
The Chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation sent Simply Smiles a notice that all visiting individuals and groups are prohibited from entering the Reservation until further notice. Schools on the Reservation are currently closed. However, our partners at the Tiospaye Topa School are providing homework and study packets for students and providing breakfast and lunch pick-up services for students in La Plant and surrounding towns. Further, children and families on the Reservation are asked to stay at home and limit travel. We are continuing Simply Smiles programming where possible and working closely with our partners on the Reservation to understand and determine the best ways that we can use our resources to help. Stay tuned for more details and needs.
Status: Home for Children • Mexico
First and foremost: The children in our care at the Simply Smiles Home for Children are safe. Schools are closing. With school cancellations and the reality of the coronavirus at large, Gaby and our staff are taking extra health and safety precautions, including judicious sanitation and cleaning of the entire facility, and closely monitoring the health of the staff and children. Stay tuned for more details and needs.
With the cancellation of our in-person Keep Hope Alive fundraisers, we need our Simply Smiles community more than ever.
Hundreds of children living at our program locations in Mexico and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota rely on us for their basic needs–and for their pursuit of the bright futures they deserve.
Check out our online Keep Hope Alive fundraising campaign and please consider the most generous donation you can to provide for the children in our care.
Your Keep Hope Alive contribution will support:
Smiling through the storm at the Simply Smiles Home for Children in Oaxaca, Mexico!
Dear Friends,
Thank you for your concern about the children in our care and for our staff in these challenging times. So many of you have sent messages and overtures of support over the past days. The Simply Smiles community is simply incredible!
We wanted to take this opportunity to update you on how everyone is doing.
At Simply Smiles, we have made significant decisions in the last few days to adapt to the reality of the coronavirus on the global community:
- Our in-person Keep Hope Alive fundraising events in Connecticut have been canceled and switched to an online fundraiser.
- Our volunteer service trips have been canceled through August.
- Our U.S. staff is currently working remotely, and we have limited staff travel.
- Additional health and safety practices have been implemented organization-wide.
These are unprecedented, rapidly changing times. Yet, here’s what we do know:
Our work can and must continue for the children who rely on us in Mexico and on the Reservation. In this update, we wanted to provide you with what is happening now at our program locations, how Simply Smiles is responding, and what you can do to help:
Status: Reservation • South Dakota
The Chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation sent Simply Smiles a notice that all visiting individuals and groups are prohibited from entering the Reservation until further notice. Schools on the Reservation are currently closed. However, our partners at the Tiospaye Topa School are providing homework and study packets for students and providing breakfast and lunch pick-up services for students in La Plant and surrounding towns. Further, children and families on the Reservation are asked to stay at home and limit travel. We are continuing Simply Smiles programming where possible and working closely with our partners on the Reservation to understand and determine the best ways that we can use our resources to help. Stay tuned for more details and needs.
Status: Home for Children • Mexico
First and foremost: The children in our care at the Simply Smiles Home for Children are safe. Schools are closing. With school cancellations and the reality of the coronavirus at large, Gaby and our staff are taking extra health and safety precautions, including judicious sanitation and cleaning of the entire facility, and closely monitoring the health of the staff and children. Stay tuned for more details and needs.
With the cancellation of our in-person Keep Hope Alive fundraisers, we need our Simply Smiles community more than ever.
Hundreds of children living at our program locations in Mexico and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota rely on us for their basic needs–and for their pursuit of the bright futures they deserve.
Check out our online Keep Hope Alive fundraising campaign and please consider the most generous donation you can to provide for the children in our care.
Your Keep Hope Alive contribution will support:
Emergency Response & Programming: Making sure that in the face of a crisis, Simply Smiles is able to provide basic needs, emergency care, and special programming.
The Simply Smiles Children’s Village: A community of Native foster families serving the Reservation’s most at-risk children will accept children in desperate need, and the facility will continue to expand its capacity.
