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Delivery Day at the Foster Care Office The Baha’is and their friends in the Salem area recently delivered an amazing collection of needed items to the Marion County Foster Care office. For the last four years the office has shared a list of needed items. This year the request was for microwavable meals and diapers. We invited the wider Salem community to join in the donation drive through ads in the "Salem Reporter" and a donation table at the Salem Public Library. A special

Thank you to Dick Blick Art Materials for their generous donation of a $200 gift card for our service project benefitting youth in foster care! This is the third year we have received a donation from Blick for our annual project. From it, we will include sketch books and drawing materials for youth in foster care. Drawing and journaling can be calming for the soul.

Each year, the Salem Baha'i Community chooses a community-oriented service project for Ayyam-i-Ha. These are 4 days of service, socializing, and gift-giving at the end of February, just before the 19 days of the Baha'i fast in the last month of the Baha'i calendar. This year Baha'is in Marion and Polk County, with the help of Blick Art Materials, lovingly collected new, quality art supplies for older children in foster care in Marion County in the hope that this love and care