About 45 children in the Urban League of Greater Cincinnati's Strong Families, Strong Children program will be able to attend a winter camp thanks to a Woodlawn businessman.

        Eddie Sinkfield, president and CEO of ALPS Compcare, Inc., read that the Urban League's Youth Empowerment Career Advancement Program was suffering a shortfall in one of its children's programs. Each year, through YECAP and the Urban League's Feed the Family program, hundreds of needy families get food baskets and toys for Christmas.

        This year, though, the Urban League was desperately low on toy donations. It needed 300 toys to give away. The league applied to the Marine Corps Reserve's Toys For Tots program for help.

        Mr. Sinkfield read an Enquirer article about it and went to the Urban League's office, at 3458 Reading Rd. in Avondale, last week and donated $1,500.

        “When I read the story I decided I could do something to help,” Mr. Sinkfield said. “I was not aware of all the things the league was doing for youth in the inner city. I was impressed with the work.”

        By then the YECAP program had received toys from the Marine's Toys For Tots; and the Urban League Guild, an auxiliary of the Urban League, had donated the food baskets.

        Mr. Sinkfield's donation will still help children, said Sharon Hardin, director of marketing and key initiatives for the Urban League. “We were able to use the money for the Strong Families, Strong Children program because of the help received for YECAP and the Feed the Family Program,” she said.

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