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Your tax-deductible gift to our Annual Fund will ensure more students facing homelessness in the Commonwealth receive the support they need to stay focused on school.  We are grateful for the hundreds of trained volunteers like Betsy, who serve as a personal coach and tutor for students like Sulexy.  Your gift also enables SOWMA to help high school students navigate college applications and make post-secondary plans.  During this 2018-2019 academic year alone, we supported 57 college students and provided more than 5,000 students with state-of-the-art backpacks and top-shelf school supplies and books.  Consider a Tribute in the name a loved one, company or occasion and celebrate the gift of education.  Together we can empower children and youth in need with tutoring, mentoring and the tools they need to succeed in school.  

Christina was the first in her family to attend college. She credits her success to David Ness, her longtime SOWMA tutor and mentor. David kept her focused on her studies throughout middle and high school despite the disruption and uncertainty of homelessness. Today Christina is a confident college student who embraces academic challenges using the discipline and tools she learned from David. "If I didn't recall all of the principles of chemistry," said David at our recent gala, "I'd ask her explain it to me so I knew she was on track," he laughed. David began this academic year circling back to where he started, tutoring another student facing homelessness. This time when the chemistry assignments arise, he'll remember the lessons he learned from Christina.