The Woman’s Club of Larchmont, Inc. Provides Children and Incarcerated Moms With Fun Activity Kits

Thinking of and missing their mothers, the children may have made a picture or designed a card in school. But these must be left at home. Nothing can be brought in. With money The Woman’s Club of Larchmont Inc. did not spend in the spring when creating release bags for women leaving the Bedford Hills facility, the Philanthropy Committee was able to make 25 Children’s Activity Kits. These will be given to children when they visit. Each 2.5 gallon clear zip-lock-type bag was filled with a pack of crayons, coloring book/activity book, writing notepad, a pen, deck of cards, packet of tissues and a game of Uno. Philanthropy Committee members Mary Ann Mazza, Judy O’Gorman, Georgia Jesse, Zsuzsanna Baan-Jonas, Deirdre Winters, and Carolyn Gallaher enjoyed assembling the Activity Kits.

Mary Ann Mazza observed that the young children face “Significant challenges and hardships …due to the child’s separation from a parent. They are deprived of a normal childhood.” By assembling these kits she feels “Working on such a project shows someone cares.” Sharon Geist Ballen, Director the Interfaith Prison Partnership, thanked the Committee for creating the Children’s Activity Kits “for the children and their incarcerated Moms, who are so grateful to be able to ‘just’ be a mom and kid playing and making memories together.”