November 2014:
Overview: Our men and women serving our country outside our borders, in foreign lands, many putting their lives on the line every day, desire the same things you do during the holidays. We can’t bring them all home, but we can send a piece of Christmas to them and lovingly remind them that America has not forgotten them.
Objective: Kristi’s Hope partnered with the community to collect Christmas stockings and stocking stuffers to fill and ship off to deployed troops. We also had several classrooms and girl-scout troops volunteer their time to create pictures/letters/cards to include in the stockings.
Result: For about 3 weeks donations were dropped off and volunteers started RSVP’ing to help fill the stockings. On Sunday November 23rd local volunteers met at the park to fill 160stockings with donated items such as hygiene products, fun snacks, healthy snacks, entertainment items like puzzles, books, hacky sacks etc. and several letters/cards drawings thanking the soldiers for their service/sacrifice.
On Monday November 24th the stockings were boxed up and shipped out to Operation Give based out of Salt Lake City, UT. They will take the stockings and send them to individual troops across the world.
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