Wasatch Presbyterian Church

After summer break, we are back in school for the 2025/2026 school year.  Students in this program need your help.  

Many of these young students are refugees who have recently come to our country with their families.  Some of these students have no English language at all, and will need help in order to learn.  Many of the students live far below the poverty level and do not always know where their next meal will come from.  At least 50 of these students are currently unsheltered and unhoused, and not all of those are lucky enough to get into the family shelters, so many are living in cars or on friends’ couches: wherever they can. 

There are so many ways to help.  Time spent with these students is time WELL-spent!  Donations of all kinds are needed, and monetary donations are ALWAYS welcomed and prized.  

 Here are the TOP FIVE needs as of today:

1. School Supplies especially pencils and spiral notebooks

2. Socks and Underwear

3. Conditioner

4. Granola Bars

5. Other easy snacks, hopefully healthy ones

Because of your generosity, 20+ backpacks were recently purchased to give some of these students a better start in school.  As you can see above, school supplies are needed to fill those backpacks, and we could use more backpacks.

We will also need 4-5 volunteers to help with a one-time Mobile Eye Care service that will be at Highland on September 16.  No experience necessary.  

Hopefully we will be able to raise enough monetary donations to contribute to an Emergency Fund for the students, which is used for just that: emergencies.  Some emergency needs have been food, shelter, health/dental/eyeglass care needs, shoes, and other needs that come up frequently.  

If any of you have a business or a contact person from a business that would be willing to donate to this mission, please let me know.  There’s not much that this program doesn’t need, so it never hurts to ask.  

Thanking you in advance for your generosity!

To Get Involved, Reach out to Shelley or Mindy.

Shelley Horel: rochellehorel@gmail.com

Mindy Smith, HHS: Melinda.Smith@slcschools.org