My Nonprofit Reviews

Snowball Express is an amazing organization for the Children of Fallen Soldiers. I have been volunteering for this charity for 10 years. I got involved, because my nephews were snowball kids. They lost there dad in Sept 2008. They got to go to Disney Land and other fun places in California, just 3 months after losing their dad. It was a great healing process for them and for there mom. They were getting ready to enter the holiday season without their dad and husband, they had to learn a new normal, if you could call it normal. Allowing them to be around other kids and spouses going through the same thing they were has such a huge impact on their healing process. Knowing it was OK to breakdown when talking about their dad, and not getting looked at funny, being able to talk about their dad and what happened to him to others that had the same experiences, there is nothing else that compares to that, in the healing process. In 2009, Snowball Express came to Dallas, I knew I had to be apart of it, because it had such an impact on my family. So I signed up to be a volunteer, and I have been doing it every year since. I have made amazing connections with kids and family members, in the years that I have been volunteering. I have made life long friendships, and I have been able to help kids, and be there for them, not just during SBE, but all year long. A text, a call, just to chat, or cry, I am always there. I think the fact that I know first hand what SBE is all about and what it can do, because it has helped my family, makes it easier for me to help others and for them to be able to relate to me. Every year new families are added to the Snowball Express family, and I wish that was not the case. I wish we did not have to have this organization, but we do, and it is amazing. It helps these kids heal from the most devastating loss there is as a child. If you are ever looking for an organization to support, please look into Snowball Express, I guarantee the money is well spent in giving these kids the trip of a lifetime, to have fun, and meet kids just like them, suffering just like them, hurting just like them, and learning to heal just like them!