Remote Childcare Fund

Fund to help non-profit supervised learning

You're taking a live look at madison through the waay31 tower cam as students from the three school districts in madison county get ready to log on for another day of virtual classes.

Waay31s sierra phillips is live at the huntsville city school's district office with how a new fund was created for the non-profits who are helping those students while their parents are at work.

Sierra?

This morning you can donate to a new fund established to support those local non- profits who are providing supervised learning for students in huntsville, madison city and madison county.

The huntsville madison county chamber estimates there are one thousand kids needing supervision while learning remotely for the first 9 weeks of classes.

At $200 per week, that's 1.8 million dollars worth of childcare funding needed.

This morning, 50 thousand dollars is already in the fund after a donation from toyota alabama, raytheon technologies and the junior league of huntsville.

The deadline to donate for the first round of grants is septermber 25th.

Grant applications for local non- profits will be open soon.

Reporting live in huntsville sierra phillips waay31 news.