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Program Spotlight:
Albuquerque Foster Grandparents |
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Foster Grandparents in Albuquerque, NM, who serve with the elementary education program make sure that children in their care get plenty of individual attention. The 56 volunteers take part in class activities, but their main focus is the one-on-one time they spend with two children who are assigned to them.
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Shirley Holte kept busy working as a pharmacy assistant, repairing antique dolls, and caring for her husband, an Alzheimer’s patient, until a friend suggested that she sign on a Foster Grandparent four years ago. Now she wonders why more people don’t take advantage of the opportunity to spend time with children like the kindergartners in Boone, Iowa, the farming community where Holte has spent her entire life.
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