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                         Dear Friends and Family of the Early Childhood Community,&nbsp;
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                         Like many of you, we have either sat in front of our televisions watching the weather or have been glued to our smartphones, scrolling through social media for the latest news out of Southeast Texas for the past 5 days, knowing what was happening was out of our control and praying everyone was safe. It has been a long few days for those of us in Texas and across the country who have family and friends affected by the storm.
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                         <span style="font-size:12pt;">As the winds started to calm and the rain continued to fall,</span>
                         <span style="font-size:12pt;">&nbsp;the images began to emerge: images of homes and buildings torn apart, of boats on dry land, of water everywhere, of businesses swallowed by water, and of families and children trapped in their own homes.</span>
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                         <br>As heartbreaking as the images and stories are, we have also seen and heard stories of neighbors helping neighbors, friends opening their homes, of strangers coming to the rescue across our great state. And those stories are just beginning.&nbsp;
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                         <strong>So how can we help?</strong>&nbsp;
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                         As an Early Childhood Community, our focus is on the children affected by the storms. We are worried and wondering how we can help them--how we can get their lives back to normal. Like all of the other businesses in Southeast Texas, child care programs are affected too. We are still learning exactly how many, we know the need will be great. With that in mind, TXAEYC has created an account to take monetary donations to help assist early childhood programs repair, replace, or rebuild their programs so&nbsp;
                         <a style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255);text-decoration:underline;" rel="nofollow" track="on" href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=j_SF-iof8oRFmjVraM_q9wALebAMyOD54CCnmhnODpYDyuxXq9tPBE168awi5TEVj2AYv0&amp;country.x=US&amp;locale.x=US" shape="rect" linktype="1" target="_blank">Donate Today!</a>&nbsp;To find out more ways to help you can visit our
                         <a style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline;" rel="nofollow" track="on" href="http://www.texasaeyc.org/" shape="rect" linktype="1" target="_blank"> website.</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;100% of the donations received by TXAEYC will go to help programs affected by Hurricane Harvey.
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                          <span lang="EN">Child Care Licensing is also working to identify operations that are impacted. If your program evacuated</span>
                          <span style="font-size:12pt;">, relocated, or your program sustained damage causing it to be unsafe in any way then p</span>
                          <span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="EN">lease complete the&nbsp;</span>
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                          <span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="EN">&nbsp;to provide details about how your child care operation is impacted.&nbsp;</span>
                          <span style="font-size:12pt;">You may also provide this information to DFPS by calling the DFPS abuse or neglect&nbsp;hotline at 1-800-252-5400.</span>
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                         As we recover may we continue to work together for Texas' youngest citizens!&nbsp;
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                         <br> Sincerely,
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                         <br> Racquel Washington
                         <br> TXAEYC President
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                         Kim Kofron
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