Neighborhood Christmas Giving Donors,
But once more, one other yr has come and gone quicker than ever. Right here we’re with Thanksgiving upon us, and the vacation season of giving shortly to comply with. I wish to thanks a lot for contributing to the Christmas Giving donation drive up to now. Your generosity and kindness are the rationale the season is brighter for lots of of scholars at Mueller Constitution College in Chula Vista and different San Diego space college students. As soon as once more, I’m asking for donations to assist in giving Christmas items and extra to younger college students and their households this vacation season.
So as to help the rising want for Christmas Giving, Amanda Werth has volunteered to affix me in organizing the hassle this yr. She organized a clothes drive to learn Mueller Constitution College final fall and has established relationships with the advisors on the faculty. Amanda is worked up to assist with the Christmas Giving drive, so you will notice her concerned in our communication.
The record of beneficiant donors has grown through the years, so we’re utilizing a brand new electronic mail platform to raised attain each donor on the record. Additionally, for the primary time, we’re using Instagram to succeed in a wider vary of givers. Please comply with our account @Giving_San_Diego and share our info and progress along with your followers. We’re hopeful that we will attain our purpose $25,000 to straight profit households in want round San Diego this vacation season and proceed our effort of Christmas Giving!
The advisors at Mueller Constitution College have initially chosen 10 households with college students on the faculty that desperately want our assist (see info beneath). The extra we elevate the extra households we will embody in our giving drive. Following the identical course of because the final 2 years, the advisors helped the mother and father and caregivers to create an Amazon want record for every little one. Not solely do the households take pleasure in selecting out the objects for his or her kids, however they really feel extra concerned in giving them Christmas. Along with your generosity we hope to have the ability to buy each merchandise on every little one’s want record whereas additionally giving every household funds to assist with payments, meals, new garments/footwear and another primary requirements.
The next households have been chosen to learn from our Christmas Giving:
FAMILY 1 – Household of 13 youngsters in all. Mother and pa are separated. The oldest sister has 4 youngsters of her personal and is chargeable for a lot of the day-to-day lives of the opposite kids. General, the household struggles.
FAMILY 2 – Scholar lives with mother in a shelter. They depend on public transportation to get to highschool and work as a result of their automobile was not too long ago towed. They’re having bother getting it again as a result of it’s too costly to get again.
FAMILY 3 – When these college students got PE shorts by the college, they shared that they didn’t have correct garments/footwear for PE due to monetary instability within the household.
FAMILY 4 – Scholar usually mentions that they’ll’t full or focus on their homework as a result of they reside of their automobile.
FAMILY 5 – Dad is disabled with a low earnings. Their hire isn’t paid, and their payments are overdue.
FAMILY 6 – Mother is out and in of the lives of 4 kids. The siblings presently reside in a one bed room condominium with six different members of the family. A complete of 10 individuals dwelling collectively and wrestle financially. The scholars usually put on the identical garments/footwear.
FAMILY 7 – The household travels between U.S and Tijuana day by day. The coed’s child sister is usually very sick, so out and in of the hospital. Mother spends most of her time taking good care of her. They stick with different household or associates or beforehand have lived in a single bed room resort.
FAMILY 8 – This yr the household misplaced their housing and needed to transfer to El Cajon. Every thing is so costly that makes it tough for the household to be financially steady. Additionally, mother’s accomplice can’t work because of mobility points.
FAMILY 9 – Single earnings makes it tough to pay for payments, meals, and garments for youths on this household of 5.
FAMILY 10 – Mother is financially chargeable for her three youngsters underneath the age of seven, her two sisters and her two mother and father (household of eight). Household has bother with steady house/dwelling conditions.
Utilizing Amazon to buy and ship items to the households has double the profit. Along with your donations we buy the items for the children AND with these purchases we earn Amazon factors. With these factors we’re capable of fulfill classroom want lists for six very deserving lecturers at Village Elementary in Coronado.
Final yr we had some technical problems with emails not reaching each donor, so we fell wanting our purpose. However, something we can provide, regardless of how a lot, will convey pleasure to some San Diego households at Christmas. With our up to date electronic mail platform and our new Instagram account we hope to boost $25,000 and provides to these 10 households or extra!
Along with your assist, now we have given quite a bit over the past 6 years:
2016 – $8,995
2017 – $12,858
2018 – $17,585
2019 – $25,570
2020 – $45,080
2021 – $26,450 for college kids/households & $2,600 value of classroom provides for lecturers at Village Elementary
Our purpose this yr is to have 150 donors to assist collectively elevate $25,000!
If you’re please donate by Saturday, December 10, 2022.
- Donate by way of Venmo by looking @Amanda-Werth-1 on the Venmo App
- Money/Examine: Make Payable to Amanda Russell and mail or drop off to 731 G Ave, Coronado, CA 92118
Any donation is useful. Be at liberty to share this info with anybody that you simply suppose could be fascinated with becoming a member of us.
Amanda McPhail and Amanda Werth
