BCA-USA MIRROR
BCA MIDWEST: CELEBRATING COLLABORATION, COMMUNITY AND SERVICE
Tita Nyuga Galega, Interim President
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he BCA Midwest Chapter includes members in the states of Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. We are delighted to have half of our membership participate at this year’s convention. This past year we have built on by ensuring that our different groups in Denver and Kansas City continue hold regular meetings. In the Denver area, we have taken it a step further by gathering together as a family to celebrate holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas. As part of the Christmas festivities our Kansas City members celebrated with a get together and a sharing of gifts to the kids. In the spirit of volunteering and giving back to the community, members in Denver partnered with a local charity A Little Help to assist seniors in need
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in the community in June 2017. Members visited three homes to provide ‘a little help’ to home bound seniors. Together with our kids, we helped senior citizens with their home cleaning chores including cutting grass and brushes, cleaning and hanging shower curtains, changing light bulbs, assembling a lawn mower and just providing good company for these often isolated and lonely population. We want to thank BCA-USA for introducing this concept of giving back to the community, because it really feels good doing an act of kindness just for the sake of it. A little help goes a long way. For these seniors, the help meant a lot. Our kids loved it, and we believe we are sowing seeds in them that they will water and build into their character as they grow. We look forward to more opportunities like this in the future. Over the summer our Denver members
