Sept 2014
Overview: Providing children a birthday surprise, one shoebox at a time.
It's hard for many of us - whether we're adults or children - to imagine celebrating the birthday of a loved one without a party or presents. But for many families, finding the extra money to spend on a child's birthday celebration is a struggle at best, and frequently impossible. For too many children in our country, birthdays are just another day... celebrated without cake, balloons, or gifts.
Kristi’s Hope partnered with Family to Family on volunteermatch.org & found a Boys and Girls Club in Southern California that could put these birthday boxes in the hands of children in need.
Objective: The birthday box challenge was created in order collect enough items to fill at least 30 boxes with the suggested items from the Family to Family website. One of the main goals was to get the children in our community involved and encourage the spirit of giving to be a way of life.
Result: Kristi’s Hope posted an announcement requesting donations to fill the boxes. We committed to donating at least 30 boxes filled with the following items:
- one box of cake mix
- one can of frosting
- one package of birthday candles
- wall decorations (a package of balloons or streamers, for example)
- an age-appropriate gently used book
- a small age-appropriate gift
- a goody bag filled with small surprises
- A birthday card made by our volunteers
For weeks the donations poured in and on Saturday September 20th a group of volunteers got together and filled each box, wrapped it and had the children create personalized birthday cards. We were extremely excited and happy with the results of this challenge.
On Friday Sept 26th, THIRTY SIX birthday boxes were delivered!
The work does not stop here….
Please keep an eye out on Kristi’s Hope Facebook page for other ways to get involved and give back to our community.
For more pictures please visit https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.704620636286792.1073741831.629137777168412&type=3
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