HPLA CHARITIES has used this platform to educate and to raise awareness of people’s needs in our community. In doing so we have asked for donations to help us in our mission. With where this world has taken us as individuals it has created tremendous hard ship. In a recent seminar the speaker suggested to please put us on your list of tax-deductible donations. The speaker said if we can’t earn the top slot on your list of organizations, please keep us in the top five. That plea was from a scholarship organization who accepts applications from students needing support to pay for an education.
Friends, HPLA Charities is asking to put us on the top of your list because we are needing to help folks to keep their utilites on. Because utility companies will be mandated to not refuse service to a past due client in the next few weeks, they are being brutal now. In the past month HPLA has paid out more to keep water, gas and electricity from getting turned off than almost in all of our history of 10 years. We are getting applications from middle income homeowners as well as the low-income homeowners we serve.
In Wichita there maybe one or two charities that consider help with water bills and those that help with gas and electricity are not returning calls due to the high demand. Making the payroll for paid staff has also restricted their help. HPLA Charities has no staff or overhead that uses donation dollars. Every cent you donate goes to help a client. We vet and check every client to insure only those that meet the criteria get help. We have been approached by two families that are having their pay checks garnished. The rules for borrowing are written so garnishment is the loaning institutions insurance. Earning just $1.00 more than what it takes to live is losing. Cutting back to just bread and water is not option for a family of 4-5. And should not have to be in the richest country in the world. (Food for thought, how did we become the richest country in the world)
- A combination of abundant natural resoucses
- Rapid industrialization
- Massive immigration
- The fortunate geographic and economic outcomes of WWII
- US mainland remained untouched while Europen and Asian countries lay in ruins
So here is my pitch folks, please contribute anything you can spare now. Put us at the top of the list temporarily before environment and animals etc. Giving Tuesday will fall on December 1, 2026. Please send us your support this time between now and then. Thank you.