Bluepoint has a record-breaking year in 2009

One of the extra services provided for the students at Monarch School for homeless children in San Diego is a weekly “shopping day” at the school. Volunteers meet and sort through clothing that has been donated to the school and lay it out by size and type of item. Monarch students come in grade by grade while school teachers and volunteers help them find things that they like and that fit them. Any clothing that doesn’t get chosen is taken to the San Diego Rescue Mission.

Anastasia Tilbury, Human Resources Specialist at Bluepoint, shares this memory: “When I volunteered for a shopping day I was touched that the kids were picking out clothes for their siblings.”

Every year Bluepoint Solutions sets a goal for donated clothing items to the Monarch School to support this program, and raises money through individual donation and fundraisers, such as the summer “casual dress” program held in July and August of 2009. This year our goal was 800 donated items, we reached 1200 and counting.

With the cold weather upon us, Bluepoint’s focus is on warm clothing such as jackets, sweaters, hats, and even blankets, through the winter months. We hope to collect more than 100 new items before the end of the year.

The Monarch School is a year round school for homeless children between the ages of 8 and 18 in the San Diego area. At Monarch, these children receive education plus additional services such as clothing, medical, vision and dental care, laundry, showers and meals. Monarch is open 51 weeks out of the year to help these students catch up to grade level since they have often had significant breaks in their education.