Women Making A Difference held their Seventh Annual Grant Awards Celebration in November, and awarded Lowcountry Orphan Relief $10,000 to help with the purchase and operating costs for LORI, our pick-up and delivery truck. The mission of the organization is to provide grants to institutions and initiatives that advance the well-being of women and children in Charleston. The new truck, brightly painted in red, yellow and blue, was purchased from Steve Jacobs of Marathon Chevrolet who made sure that the truck was in great shape to do its job for serving the needs of abused, neglected, and abandoned children of the Charleston region.

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Lowcountry Orphan Relief refurbished the library/homework room at the Connie Maxwell Children’s  Home in Orangeburg, SC.  Cathy Keagy and volunteer Lori Bellaciccio painted the room and took “LORI” the delivery truck up to Orangeburg, loaded with 3,000 new books donated by Kate Counts of The Pajama Program and three computers, monitors, keyboards and mice, made possible by a gift from Select Health of SC.  A new couch and posters were purchased with funds from the St. Andrew’s Rotary Club of Charleston.  The children were very excited to see the room take shape and they were thrilled with all of the new books and computers!! Thank you to all of our volunteers and donors who made this all possible.