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Models Auxiliary
In March of 1968, the Models Auxiliary was certified. The Models
Auxiliary produces fashion shows as a means of raising funds to
assist in financial support of the philanthropic projects and/or
fundraising activities of Assistance League Antelope Valley.
Criteria
for Joining Models Auxiliary
Models
of all ages, shapes and sizes are welcome to join the Models Auxiliary.
Model at seasonal fashion shows and help our community at the same
time. Models members also provide a party at Easter and Christmas
for the preschoolers.
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Operation School Bell
Models Auxiliary adopted the
Operation School Bell® project in 2006. They began providing
backpacks, sweatshirts, socks, underwear and hygiene kits to local
school children in need. The first distribution was to approximately
300 children at one school. Continuing to grow the project, the
Model’s Auxiliary projects distribution to about 1200 children each
school year.
Operation School Bell® -- Provides new backpacks,
clothing and other supplies to children in grades K-6 who are
identified as in need by school personnel resulting in an increase
in regular attendance, academic performance and fewer discipline
problems.
History of
Operation School Bell
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Ruth Ann
Montgomery, a school-teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School
District, saw children from one family coming to school on a
rotating basis. She discovered that the children came to school
based on whose turn it was to wear the clothes that day.
- Castoffs were gathered from
friends and family and "Clothes Closet" opened in Ruth Ann
Montgomery's classroom, giving out clothing to children so they
all could attend school on a regular basis.
- Ruth Ann Montgomery moved to
Bakersfield, CA, and the Volunteer Service Guild was established
to promote the mission of outfitting school children whose parents
couldn't afford to buy them the clothes they needed.
- Teachers, school nurses and
counselors referred children who came in growing numbers.
- Volunteer Service Guild became a
chapter of National Assistance League in 1958 and adopted the
program name Operation School Bell.
- In 1997 Operation School Bell
was adopted as the national philanthropic program for
Assistance League chapters.
- Operation School Bell
has provided new clothing, including jackets and shoes, to over
one million school children.
- Volunteers fit each child and
help them select clothing; for many children these are the first
clothes that belong solely to them.
- Uniforms are provided in school
districts where this is a requirement.
- Operation School Bell
is the signature philanthropic program for 117 chapters and guilds
across the United States with combined annual budgets totaling
more than 9.5 million dollars for this program.
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