Overview: Men and women serving our country outside our borders, in foreign land, many putting their lives on the line every day, desire the same things you do during the holidays. We can’t bring them 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 The JROTC from Pacifica High School, a Daisy Girl Scout Troop, and the Red Hat Society volunteer their time to create Christmas cards to include in the stockings that they filled.
Result: For about 3 weeks donations were dropped off and volunteers started RSVP’ing to help fill the stockings. On Saturday November 5th local volunteers met at the park to fill 398 stockings with donated items such as hygiene products, fun snacks, healthy snacks, entertainment items like puzzles, books, games etc. and several letters/cards drawings thanking the soldiers for their service/sacrifice.
The Daisy girl scouts brought specific donations for the deployed K9’s. The filled stockings for the dogs, and made special holiday cards for them as well. When they were done filling the stockings, they received an extra special visit from US Coast Guard Clint and his Military K9 “Kira”. They got to learn about what a real live Military dog does and how they do it. They even got to see her find bomb material and alert her handler. 300 of the stockings were shipped off to deployed military troops. 25 of those stockings were for the deployed military K-9’s. The rest will be delivered to the wounded warrior barracks.
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