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More about Project Night Night
Kendra Stitt Robins is the founder and executive director of Project Night Night, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing care packages for homeless and transient children living in shelters across the country. Founded in 2005, Project Night Night collects, assembles and delivers Night Night Packages, which include blankets, stuffed animals and age-appropriate books to help these children have a more restful night’s sleep while living in shelters.
Ms. Robins created Project Night Night after experiences with her two-year-old son Cole led her to realize that putting him to bed was one of the most critical parts of his day. Without a full night’s sleep, Cole would be irritable and unresponsive the next day. Ms. Robins became concerned for the many homeless and transient children who lacked the most basic bedtime comforts. These children, just like her own son, deserved to have a security blanket to snuggle and a stuffed animal to squeeze as they drifted off to sleep. Sensing her life’s calling, Ms. Robins left a successful legal career to launch Project Night Night.
Since March of 2005, Ms. Robins has coordinated the collection anddonation of tens of thousands of Night Night Packages to children across the country. Ms. Robins has made a personal commitment to provide a Night Night Package to every homeless child who makes arequest. She relies on the help of friends, family and corporate contacts to support Project Night Night’s mission and expand the efforts to reach more children in the places they seek shelter.
Prior to establishing Project Night Night, Ms. Robins practiced law in the San Francisco office of Bingham McCutchen, LLP. Before attending law school, she taught English Literature at various community colleges in the Washington D.C. area. She earned a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and law degree at Georgetown University. Ms. Robins currently lives with her husband, young son, and daughter in San Francisco, CA.
More about Heifer International’s Reed to Feed Program
Read to Feed is a reading incentive service-learning program that offers global education opportunities and will foster in your children a love for reading, a passion to help others and a way to help create a better world.
Children (individually or as a group) get sponsors for each book they read during a time frame set by his or her Read to Feed leader. Sponsors set a pledge amount for each book read or unit of time spent reading—a quarter or a dollar, or any desired amount. At the end of the program, children collect their pledges, pool their money and then donates them to Heifer International to help Heifer assist millions of families around the world feed their families and reach self-reliance through the gifts of livestock and training.
The Read to Feed program encourages reading skills, while teaching students how they can empower families around the world with the gift of livestock, heightening awareness that their actions are making a difference in the lives of others. There are many ways to incorporate global education throughout your Read to Feed program.
More about Mya Sandi Aung
Mya Sandi Aung, the Manager of Community Education, leads the team responsible for the operations of Adult Education, K-12 and International Education programs. As the outreach team of the Education Department, the goal of Community Education is to deliver high-quality education programs and resources to Heifer’s nationwide participants and inspire them to take action.
She believes learning about global social issues is important for every child and that the awareness will foster passion and therefore, passion will lead to action.
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