OYSTER RIVER WOMENADE’S 2025 HIGHLIGHTS

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We supported 114 families in our community in need through validated requests.

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Here are some impactful stories from this year:

• Assisted an international UNH grad student and family with sharply rising rent expenses. 

• Helped a young women get out of a difficult situation with her family at home and into housing so she no longer slept in her car. 

• A family with medical issues needed to pay the security department to a new apartment so they could escape from a mold filled apartment. 

• Assisted a woman with multiple medical conditions purchase a new bed and mattress.

• Aided a man pay his heating bill after he experienced two unexpected medical emergencies and a totaled car in a short time. 

• Helped a woman pay for extensive dental work and new dentures. 

• A man was injured and couldn’t work, so we paid his storage unit bill so his stuff would not be thrown out. 

• A man with a brain injury has had a hard time with employment and was homeless, we paid for several nights at a hotel to keep him housed until a shelter bed opens up. 

• Aided a young woman pay for driver’s education classes.

• Assisted a woman in purchasing hearing aids that were not covered by insurance and were very expensive. 

• Helped a young man recently diagnosed with HIV pay for unexpected medical expenses. 

• A young mom fled a domestic violence situation with her young children and needed help with child care payments so she could work consistently. 

• Helped a disabled woman pay for glasses after a cataract diagnosis.

• And we were able to donate:  

• $15,000 - Food Banks including End 68 hours of hunger

• $2,000 - Oyster River Nurses Discretionary Fund

• $1,000 - Mules Mission 

• $8,000 - Newmarket Rec Camp scholarships.

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