Donation Drives to Benefit At-Risk Youth in Loudoun

Inova Loudoun Hospital’s Mobile Hope program will be accepting donations beginning Friday, Feb. 24.

Inova Loudoun Hospital’s Mobile Hope program is hosting a number of donation drives beginning this Friday, Feb. 24, which will benefit at-risk youth who live in Loudoun County. Last month, during a check presentation for Mobile Hope, Community Affairs Executive and Director Donna Fortier said there were at least 650 homeless children that had been identified last spring. There could be more, she said, which is an unfortunate number based on the area we live in. On Tuesday, Spokesperson Renee Brohard said donations for Mobile Hope will be collected monthly, between 6 and 8 p.m., on the first Monday and the last Friday of the month at Inova Loudoun Medical Campus, located at 224 Cornwall St., NW, in Leesburg.   Current needs include personal…

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Mobile Hope Receives $2,550 Donation

The George C. Marshall International Center presented the check in front of the Dadona Manor, on Monday, which will help over 650 at risk or homeless children within Loudoun County.

The George C. Marshall International Center donated a $2,550 check to Inova Loudoun Hospital’s Mobile Hope Program on Monday. The donation was collected during a recent Raise the Paddle for Loudoun's Homeless Children auction held during a benefit gala, last November. Board President Stephen C. Price and Executive Director Magee Daly presented the check to Community Affairs Executive and Director Donna Fortier, who said the money will help more than 650 precariously housed children in Loudoun County.  “At the end of the school year last year there were 659 children that had been identified,” Fortier said, which doesn’t mean there isn't more. Like most donations, the money will go towards anything that might be essential to help a child get…

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Brambleton Presbyterian Youth Groups Donate Blankets to Inova Loudoun's Mobile Hope

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Mobile Hope Van Reaches Out to Homeless Children

The keynote speaker at Inova Loudoun's annual Community Affairs Summit luncheon recounts a career teaching homeless children.

Loudoun‘s ahead of Fairfax again – by a whisker thin margin, it's the richest county in the United States – maybe in the universe. So there’s no problem with homeless children here. Right? Wrong, said Donna Fortier, Inova Loudoun Hospital’s community affairs executive, to the nearly 200 guests at the 4th annual Chaplaincy and Community Affairs Summit, hosted by the hospital at the National Conference Center in Leesburg. The theme for 2011 is “Focusing on the homeless children in our community.” Public schools in Loudoun tallied 659 homeless children, ages 18 and younger, in the 2010 school year, Fortier said. There are surely more, and close to 40 percent of them have no identified parent or guardian. And most programs that reach out to …

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