Children of the Valley (COV) serves under-resourced children and their families by valuing their cultural identity and empowering them through education personal growth and mentorship. Free to the families and students served, COV provides daily, after school, instructor-led academic assistance, enrichment activities, social-emotional learning opportunities, and help so families can meet basic needs.

Funds from 4% Friday will be used to support COV’s garden to table enrichment program which will provide the necessary supplies needed to grow and harvest food in a community garden along with the additional gardening and cooking supplies needed in order to carry out activities in 2024.

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Each week students participate in a gardening and cooking club where they plant and cultivate a variety of crops to harvest and cook with throughout the year. COV is in need of the necessary supplies and items in order to plant and prepare these various activities that are planned.

This year, COV students plan to make stone soup, cornbread, pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread, and other items from the food that’s harvested. 4% Friday funds will support the purchase of ingredients for cooking, seeds for planting, youth gardening gloves, shovels, hoes and other gardening tools students can use along with a bench to place in the garden to conduct learning activities while in the garden.