August 10, 1999

Beth Davis, Director

Kids 4 Kids Club

PO BOX 165802

Miami, FL 33116

Dear Ms. Davis,

Sunday's distribution of backpacks at the migrant farm worker labor camps by your Kids 4 Kids Project was a resounding success. Many of our migrant children are at risk due to their lifestyle of following the harvesting of the crops. They begin school with gaps in academic skills and lack of proper school materials. Your generosity in furnishing book bags and school supplies for our children certainly helps them start school on a par with their non-migrant peers. As well as giving them the necessary school supplies, the Kids 4 Kids children gave the migrant children pride and hope. It is extremely embarrassing for children to bring their supplies to school in a paper bag. Because of your wonderful Kids 4 Kids, our migrant students will not be embarrassed.

The Miami Herald spoke of the enthusiasm demonstrated by the students involved in Kids 4 Kids and the joy that they brought to the migrant farm worker children in Homestead. and Florida City. It is because of you and your fine project that the event took place. The migrant children learned from your project that children can give to other children. This model is one that our children can duplicate as they become enabled through education.

On behalf of the migrant children, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Please express to the participants of the Kids 4 Kids Project a sincere thank you from all of us and tell them how much we appreciate their love and kindness. If I can be of any assistance to you in the future, please contact me.

Sincerely,

Cipriano Garza, Director

Migrant Education Program

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