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, Brownie Scouts, and the Red Hat Society volunteer their time.
Result: For about 3 weeks donations were dropped off and volunteers started RSVP’ing to help fill the stockings. On Saturday October 28th local volunteers met at the park to fill 761 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 Brownie 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.
These stockings were shipped off to deployed troops and all shipping was sponsored by The American Legion in Newport Beach.
- Thank you Congressman Dana Rohrabacher for joining us and supporting our efforts.
- Thank you Jacqueline Toueg for featuring our event in the local news and for all the fun interviews with the volunteers.
- Thank you troop 4174 for collecting donated items for our deployed K9’s.
For more pictures, please visit our album: https://www.facebook.com/pg/kristishope/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1493243464091168
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