Award

Five representatives from the Windham County 4-H Foundation attended a grant recipient awards program called “A Celebration of Women Helping Women” at Eastern Connecticut University recently.  The 4-H Foundation was awarded $4,000 to continue a program of reaching out to Latino girls from Windham and Willimantic in order to provide them with a week of camping this summer at the camp in Pomfret.  Sponsored by the Windham Area Women and Girls Fund of the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut,  the 4-H Foundation was one of 15 nonprofit agencies to receive a total of $48,575.00 from the Fund.  A challenge grant from the Eileen Ossen and the Jeffrey P. Ossen Foundation was instrumental in making this amount of grant support available in 2015.    The camp season starts on June 21 this year.  Bottom row, left to right: Carol Hagan, Elaine Nelson, Sandra Ahola (WC 4-H Foundation Board Members). Top row, left to right: Eileen Fritz (Board member) and Heather Logee, Youth Programs Coordinator. Courtesy photo.