Recent Awesome Foundation Key West Grant is Given to WRITE ON

Pictured are Candace Whitaker (2^nd from left), Kristina Neihouse (2^nd from right), and Lori Kelly (3^rd from right) receiving their Grant Award at Island Books Bookstore, and are joined by Suzanne Orchard, proprietor of Island Books (3^rd from left), with Awesome trustees, Amy Culver (1^st on left), David Johnson (center), and Bill Klipp (1^st on right).

Recent Awesome Foundation Key West Grant is Given to WRITE ON

The Awesome Foundation Key West recently presented $1000 to the volunteer group WRITE ON to provide resources and needed supplies otherwise not readily available for female inmates in the Monroe County Detention Center. WRITE ON provides these tools for the women to work on themselves through the written word. Volunteers also work with women who transfer from the MCDC to state prison. Volunteers continue to keep in touch with the women through letters, notebooks and writing prompts.

Due to Covid-19, WRITE ON has not been to the detention center since mid-March. However, with the assistance and support of Director Keena Allen and other MCDC staff, WRITE ON continues to provide notebooks, pencils and writing prompts for women who are interested in writing.

In addition, volunteers work with Key West Island Books bookstore to order books to inspire the women to write and tell their stories.

WRITE ON leaders are Candace Whitaker who has been volunteering at the MCDC for over twenty years, starting with Art Behind Bars, then Stepping Out. Kristina Neihouse became a volunteer with Stepping Out in 2008. WRITE ON was formed in 2013. Lori Kelly joined in 2018. More info: https://writeonpublished.wordpress.com/

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