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About the "Adopt-A-Letter" program

The Adopt-A-Letter was inspired in 2007 by Baroness Kimberly Moore, CEO of “The Echelon Club” just 10 days before Christmas when a simple idea arose to answer Santa letters at the US Post Office written from thousands of children living in the community. What turned out to be a cute idea, Ms. Moore was shock to find hundreds of letters written from such needy children and families expressing their Christmas wishes to Santa. While some children wished for toys, others were asking Santa for food, school supplies, blankets and warm socks for their mom. A six year boy writes: "Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is is a nice warm meal with my family." "When I started reading these letters, I was heart broken," says Ms. Moore. “I would have never imagined that there would be so many children requesting such simple things, right here in our own community. Ms Moore and Echelon member Patrice Farameh decided to take matters into their own hands and answer hundreds of letters of children living in some of the most impoverished areas and making their Christmas wishes come true.

The Adopt-A-Letter program would allow Echelon members and friends to adopt a letter of a needy child, collect the gifts and personally deliver to them on Christmas day as Santa’s helpers. As the word began to spread, they received more than 3 truck loads of adopted gifts, adopting over 1,500 Christmas wishes (as seen on Fox 11News). All gifts were delivered door to door along with volunteers and personal escorts provided by the LAPD. Since then, Ms Moore kept in touch with some of the neediest families and decided to take it a step further. She began mentoring some of the children in the communities, building educational projects which inspired a variety of campaigns which also lead to securing music programs in public schools. The program not only answers wishes from Santa, but adopts requests from underprivileged children and families providing relief and mentorship through out the year. The Adopt-A-Letter program has already secured almost 15,000 Christmas presents for 2008.

About Kimberly Moore, Founder

Baroness Kimberly Moore is an active philanthropist from New York City and Goodwill Ambassador to the United States, best known for using her creative energy in raising funds and awareness for a variety of charitable causes around the world. She founded The Echelon Club in 2005, a highly exclusive organization dedicated to bringing together influential people from around the world who are interested in making a difference and creating a better future in the world today. Inspired by her influential members, she has developed a great number of programs and campaigns benefiting, children and families in her own communities, using her Echelon Club resources to make a difference.

After the formation of The Echelon Club, she then founded the "Adopt-A-Letter" program and the "Keeping Harmony Alive" campaign in Los Angeles. Ms. Moore's campaigns are well recognized in the media after her success in adopting wishes and impacting the lives of nearly 20,000 of children in need. Since then Ms. Moore was honored at the 2008 "Hollywood Music Awards" for securing music programs in public schools and was officially honored by the Mayor and Chief of Police at Bell Gardens City Hall Auditorium for her outstanding contribution to the children in the community. In October 2009, Baroness Kimberly Moore was appointed by the newly elected President (Malam Bacai Sanha) of Guinea Bissau, West Africa and named the first Goodwill Ambassador to the United States of America. Ms. Moore currently sits on the board of advisors for "Tiny Stars" a non profit organization dedicated to fighting sexual slavery and abuse with children, board of directors of Didrick Medical and Peace Ambassador to the World Gandhi Tour and Music 4 Peace.

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