KIDS NEED YOUR GENTLY USED WINTER COATS

The call is out for more than 1,000 used coats for needy students in the Davenport Community Schools and other surrounding public and private schools. Current inventories show the program has 500 coats – there are already requests this year for 1,500 coats! The Dr. David E. Lane Memorial “Coats for Kids” program has provided more than 6000 coats during the past four winters.

Donations of winter coats (new or used) may be taken to any Burke Cleaners location in the Iowa Quad Cities. The greatest need is for coats in children’s sizes. Donations are also welcomed in infant, toddler and adult sizes. Cash donations may be made to the Coats for Kids program, in care of the Davenport Community Schools foundation at 1606 Brady Street in Davenport, IA, 52803.

In its seventh year, the Coats for Kids program is operated by volunteers from participating schools, businesses and the Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency (AEA). Coats are collected, cleaned, sized and then packaged for distribution at individual schools. The program serves schools in all districts within the AEA’s service area.
The Coats for Kids program is named after Dr. David E. Lane who was a Davenport Community Schools administrator and member of the charter Coats for Kids committee at the time of his death in 1999. Volunteer chairperson of the committee is Rabbi Henry Jay Karp.