Holiday Giving at MCEC
Posted on Nov 15, 2016
Our program on the 15th was a presentation by Louise Bagshaw and Jenny Bodurka about the Holiday Giving Program run thru MCE.
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program was started in the 1980’s as a way to give kids in families in distress some Christmas gifts. The ICA provides food and lodging for families, but didn’t have the resources to provide gift to kids for the holidays. School social workers in the district sent profiles of the needy families to MCE, and groups were assigned to fill the Christmas wishes of the kids. Delivery crews took the gifts to the families’ home just prior to Christmas.
program was started in the 1980’s as a way to give kids in families in distress some Christmas gifts. The ICA provides food and lodging for families, but didn’t have the resources to provide gift to kids for the holidays. School social workers in the district sent profiles of the needy families to MCE, and groups were assigned to fill the Christmas wishes of the kids. Delivery crews took the gifts to the families’ home just prior to Christmas.The program is a bit more sophisticated now, but the mission is the same. Last year, 164 families received gifts through this program, and over 2,000 families have received gifts in the past 15 years.