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Human Services Non - Departmentals <br />A Helping Hand $2,000 <br />This agency enables senior citizens to live independently, maintain high levels of wellness and <br />avoid institutionalized care. Services provided by A Helping Hand include transportation to the <br />doctor, assistance with shopping for nutritious food and preparing healthy meals, assistance <br />with business correspondence, and light housekeeping for a clean and safe home environment. <br />Adolescents in Need $0 <br />This agency serves Orange County School District teens (grades 6 through 12 and those not in <br />school). The focus is primarily on those youths that are considered at -risk of early sexual <br />involvement, substance abuse, defiant behavior and physical or sexual abuse due to home, <br />family or other social surroundings. <br />Alliance of AIDS Services $3,000 <br />This agency operates two family care homes for low- income people living with HIV /AIDS, six of <br />whom currently live at the Orange Community Residence ( "Orange House ") in Carrboro. This <br />grant will assist the Alliance in providing the proper nutrition and medication needed for the six <br />residents in the Orange House. <br />Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle $2,000 <br />Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of the Triangle offers two services: community -based and <br />school -based mentoring. Community -based mentoring provides mentors for children from <br />single parent homes or other children in need of adult mentors. These "Big Brothers and Big <br />Sisters" play an integral role in the lives of their "Littles" by being good listeners and guiding <br />these children in the right direction. <br />Boys and Girls Club of Eastern Piedmont <br />The Boys and Girls Club of Easter Piedmont provides <br />youth especially from challenging circumstances, wit h <br />environment where they are safe, equally accepted <br />programs that enhance their self- esteem and assist <br />productive, responsible and caring citizens. <br />Chapel Hill - Carrboro Meals on Wheels <br />$5,000 <br />Orange County school age children and <br />a professionally supervised, consistent <br />and able to participate in goal- oriented <br />them to achieve their full potential as <br />$2,000 <br />The Chapel Hill - Carrboro Meals on Wheels program uses volunteers to deliver nutritious <br />noonday meals with cheerful personal visits five days a week to those who are homebound or <br />recovering from surgery. In addition to delivering meals, volunteers bake homemade desserts <br />and help in the office, which is located in Binkley Baptist Church. <br />QUI <br />