Holiday Gift Collection 2009
141 Franklin Street Stamford, Connecticut 06901 (203) 388-0100
We provide a “wish card” with the name, age, gender and specific gift requests of individual children. You provide two new gifts for each child and attach the wish card you received to the bag holding the unwrapped gifts for each child. You can drop off the gifts at a number of convenient designated drop-off locations from November 2nd through December 3rd. The approximate cost is $50 per child.
In addition to assigned “wish cards”, general gifts can be placed in “drop-off bins” around Fairfield County. Simply place new, unwrapped gifts in the bins. Volunteers will wrap and then distribute the gifts to children according to their requests, age and special interests. See “Drop-Off Locations” on left.
We collect, personalize and wrap all gifts and prepare them for pick-up by the organizations serving children in need. Gifts are delivered to children and families prior to the holidays.
ALL GIFTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY DECEMBER 3For more information or to request a wish card contact: Takeia McAlister at: 203-388-0103 or Tmcalister@stlukeslifeworks.org
This year our Holiday Gift Collection strives to provide two personalized gifts per child (approximate cost $50 per child) to over 1,700 children served by 34 agencies (see list below) in time for the holidays.
Please help us ensure that no needy child goes without gifts and hope during the holiday season.
“These gifts give the children one day out of the year when they can focus on being a child,” said Charlene Lee of the Women’s & Men’s Health Project of Bridgeport.
How You Can Help:
Sponsor a child -request a “wish card” with two items to fulfill. (Approx. $50 per wish card)
Donate a toy or gift - Click on the red button to the left to see the gift selection list.
Make a contribution - to help cover costs of boxes, tape, wrapping paper, gift bags, and the purchase of toys and gifts not met by the collection. Mail to: LifeWorks Holiday Gift Collection, 141 Franklin Street, Stamford 06901 or donate on-line.
Organize a collection - at your church or synagogue, work place, school, club or other community
organization.
Volunteer - Individuals and groups are needed to pick-up, sort, and wrap gifts. Call the Holiday Gift Collection Hotline to sign up at 388-0103.
2009 Holiday Gift Collection Event Sponsors:
A program maximizing the quality of life of children impacted by poverty,
AIDS and homelessness at holiday time
Ed
McGettigan
Friends of Children, Inc.
St. Luke's
LifeWorks
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