Today was a GREAT day the club. Todd and Cindy, two of our board members and fundraisers for DOVE have been collecting fishing rods over the past few months. They ended up collecting 30, and shipped them down here before they arrived since they were not able to check them as cargo on their airplane.
So today, throughout the course of the classes, each boy picked out thier fishing rod with Todd, according to size, height, etc. and then at the end of the day they were able to take them home. The boys were SO excited, and they could barely contain themselves all day.
Normally we do not like to just give out presents to the kids, however the fishing rods are a very different story. The rods will be able to help the entire family...they will be able to properly catch fish to eat. We have seen a few different makeshift ways of fishing and nothing works as well as an actual rod.
Along with the rods, Todd also brought tackle, and each boy recieved a ziplock full of hooks and tackle to go with their fishing rod.
The boys were super excited, and later on that day, as we were driving down one of the back roads, in the pouring rain, we saw two of the boys, huge smiles on their faces, fishing rods in hand, and in the other a fish in a ziplock. "For the lunch" they said...they could not have been happier. Thanks Todd and Cindy!
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