Let's Help, KTKA encourage community to keep giving
Agency sees an upward trend in need; volunteers sought
9:19 a.m. Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The Community Keeps Giving project has married Let's Help and KTKA 49 ABC News for a commitment of community betterment.
Over the course of the last six months, we've partnered to transform five people's homes and lives in what started as the Oprah's Big Give challenge. The challenge ended, but the community kept giving, restoring a woman's inherited home, providing a Scranton man who is disabled with a new handicap accessible van and the list goes on.
KTKA/Let's Help Telethon
- When: Sunday, July 20, 2008, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- Where: KTKA 49 ABC , 2121 SW Chelsea Dr., Topeka
- Cost: Free
- Age limit: All ages
This weekend comes the culmination of the project, a special broadcast starting at 6 p.m. Sunday and highlighting the five families and the efforts of individuals and companies around the area. Plus, a telethon will be held in conjunction with the broadcast.
KTKA will host a telethon to support Let's Help. Community members interested in giving time or money are asked to call in to the station from 6 to 7 p.m. Sunday. Proceeds will be pumped right back into the Topeka community. Write this phone number down: (785)215-8500, and call in Sunday night.
Karen Taylor with Let's Help says the need has been increasing in recent months, so volunteers are especially needed.
Let's Help offers a variety of services to the community including free lunches to the homeless and hungry, GED assistance, a food commodity program and emergency services. Funding the emergency services is particularly valuable to those people who find themselves in need of help with their utility bills, grocery bills and, in some cases, rent. The nonprofit organization also offers training for older citizens (55 and older) and job placement assistance.
The stories below feature the five participants in the Community Keeps Giving Challenge.
Oprah's Big Give - Topeka
Would you like to help? Sign up for Oprah's Big Give: Topeka here.
- Crews get dirty for Oprah's Big Give: Topeka (April 28, 2008)
- Oprah's Big Give gets a sizable piece of the pie (April 24, 2008)
- Pie supply high at Copper Oven; grab a slice for a good cause (April 24, 2008)
- An unexpected gift for a Scranton man (April 22, 2008)
- Westar lends a hand as Oprah's Big Give transforms woman's property (April 18, 2008)
- Work on Oprah's Big Give continues in Topeka, nationally (April 17, 2008)
- Caffeine cravings fuel philanthropic effort (April 17, 2008)
- Scranton students collect big bucks for Oprah's Big Give (April 16, 2008)
- Brain cancer survivor gives to Oprah's Big Give (April 15, 2008)
- OBG recipient fitted for hearing aid (April 11, 2008)
- Volunteers give OBG recipient new cabinets (April 9, 2008)
- Oprah's Big Give: City addresses Topeka woman's water woes (April 7, 2008)
- Oprah's Big Give keeps growing (April 3, 2008)
- Kudos to those who signed up with Oprah's Big Give: Topeka (April 2, 2008)
- Oprah's Big Give makes a cleaning sweep (April 1, 2008)
- More give to Oprah's Big Give: Topeka (March 29, 2008)
- Oprah's Big Give recipient is pampered (March 26, 2008)
- Mapping a Big Give plan of attack (March 25, 2008)
- Oprah's Big Give recipient looks forward to hosting Easter holidays (March 23, 2008)
- Oprah's Big Give even bigger, thanks to Topekans (March 21, 2008)
- Kudos to those who signed up with Oprah's Big Give: Topeka (March 21, 2008)
- The big check is passed, the volunteers are ready (March 20, 2008)
- Oprah's Big Give helps college student (March 20, 2008)
- Former athlete grateful for kindness of strangers in time of need (March 19, 2008)
- Oprah's Big Give gives back to neighbor (March 18, 2008)
- Woman born and raised in Topeka home needs help to stay there (March 17, 2008)
- 49 ABC, Oprah team up to transform lives in Oprah's Big Give: Topeka (March 16, 2008)
- KTKA 49 ABC invites public to help with Oprah's Big Give: Topeka (March 11, 2008)
- Oprah's giving big to Topeka (March 7, 2008)
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