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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: INSPIRING URBAN YOUTHS TODAY

The challenges, struggles, and accomplishments of famed educator Booker T. Washington continue to inspire middle school urban youth in 2015. A Houston middle school girl studied his life and wrote this in a Booker T. Washington essay contest: “In my own personal life I’ve had my own struggles…in no way they compare to being born […]

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Coats for Cold Children

Thirty five dollars ($35) from Caring Friends donors bought 8 coats and sweaters at a Salvation Army shop on a 50% off day. School nurses at elementary schools use these to help children who have no coats during cold weather days.

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Fish or Fishing Pole

For Caring Friends vocational training is a sweet spot in charitable giving: a fishing pole rather than fish. Forty Haitian students got 16 weeks of medical equipment repair training in Haiti, the first formal biomed training these hospital techs had. Caring Friends was one of the key partners in providing biomed training and these tool […]

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Caring Friends, Inc. and Global Health Awards in Texas Medical Center

Funds for 2015 awards will provide opportunities to young healthcare graduate students. Send tax deductible donations via PayPal or to Caring Friends, Inc, 4024 Lanark Lane, Houston, TX 77025. In 2013-2014 Caring Friends, Inc. worked with new non profit Houston Global Health Collaborative, granting awards totaling $9000+ to 22 healthcare students in schools of medicine, […]

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GIVING PARTNERS CHANGE LIVES!

Caring Friends, Inc. undergirds efforts to serve, support and encourage the at-risk to realize their God given potential. We initiate these partnerships:: 1. Best Reader/Most Improved Reader program in elementary schools, and support a refugee student mentoring effort by Rice University students. 2. A 5th Ward biblically based job training class tied to promising employment […]

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