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Thank you. Thank you. For 25 years you have partnered with us to help care for thousands of vulnerable children throughout Southern Illinois. Youve helped us raise millions of dollars to provide special medical care and counseling build shelters train hundreds of social workers teachers and child care professionals to work with traumatized children collaboration with the SIU School of Medicine Harvard University and Prevent Child Abuse Illinois in supporting resilient children who despite their trauma are succeeding in school a bed ministry which has provided hundreds of beds for children who had no place to sleep hundreds of thousands of dollars to area food pantries for the purchase of nutritional food for deprived children the renovation of facilities that house abused bandoned and neglected children one of the biggest Christmas toy iveaways in all of Southern Illinois as well as scholarships for students who have suffered abuse.