An estimated 120 volunteers will serve. Of this number, 109 will be placed in outcome assignments

Some of their activities will include reading with elementary school children, delivering meals to homebound, driving elderly to medical appointments, volunteering in support of the food pantry and volunteering with habitat for humanity. The primary focus area of this project is healthy futures. At the end of the three-year grant period, up to 100 elementary school children will have been helped to improve reading levels, over 100 elderlies will receive medical transportation and meals to help them stay in their home, and hundreds will receive nutritious food from the food pantry. The cncs federal investment of $40000 will be supplemented by $16049 state funds, $4000 henry county health center funds, henry county supervisors donate $2000, and included are various local donations. Seventy volunteers support healthy futures. Through the county food pantry 23 people support the organization, helping distribute food, work at the pantry?s second-hand store, and work to deliver lunch sack meals to children during the summer. Twenty-six people volunteer to drive elderly and/or handicapped individuals to medical appointments. Twenty individuals in three county locations help to prepare and deliver food to home bound elderly people. Thirty-four people volunteer to read with elementary students working to improve reading skills. Four schools ask for volunteers for this endeavor. Over 600 hours have been spent on this important effort in the past year. Reports received at the end of the school year have shown marked improvement in reading scores.