JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – 121 Financial and the Sulzbacher Center are bringing smiles to hundreds of disadvantaged families this Christmas with their yearly Christmas artifact drive.
More than 500 kids received a peculiar acquisition conscionable for them, from Santa. Mother of 2 Channing Scott Myers brought her children. She described the lawsuit arsenic ‘an escape’ from the harsh realities that low-income households look each day.
“It’s truly hard. Sometimes determination are days wherever they whitethorn beryllium conscionable h2o and bread,” said Myers.
Thanks to the Jacksonville community, 121 Financial, and of people Santa and his elves, families person 1 little happening to interest astir this Christmas.
“If we didn’t bash things similar this it would beryllium nary uncertainty that determination would beryllium immoderate children that wouldn’t person Christmas,” said Brian Snow, Chief Program Officer of Sulzbacher Center.
“It’s conscionable large to spot the smiling faces connected the kids. They’re adorable and it’s wonderful,” said Adam Wade, Vice President of Marketing, 121 Financial.
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With the pandemic and proviso concatenation delays, Sulzbach Center made definite to program acold successful advance.
“The proviso concatenation compared to past twelvemonth benignant of forced america to beryllium adjacent much organized than mean wherever we had to program things and bid things much successful precocious to origin successful that delayed transportation time,” said Brian Snow.
Any remaining gifts volition beryllium dropped disconnected to families astatine stateless shelters crossed the city.
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