With Christmas nearly upon us, I’m asking the community to help with monetary donations and help shop and assemble food boxes. Together, we can continue to work to make sure every child has a Merry Christmas! But with your help, we can change that! Together we can make a real difference in the lives of these children! We can make sure they have food, get them clothes, and we can even make their Christmas morning one of joy.
The Surry County Sheriff’s Office and Surry County Schools believe that every boy and girl deserves to experience the joy and exhilaration of a happy Christmas morning with a full belly and warm clothes.Ĭan you imagine waking up every day and knowing you would be going to school wearing the same clothes as the day before? What if you woke up on Christmas morning and saw that Santa had forgotten you? What if you spent each day of Christmas vacation checking the cupboards with a growling stomach, seeing that there is still no food?įor many children in Surry County, this dire image is their reality. The goal is to make sure that children in need have an adequate supply of food to get them through the school Christmas break, to ensure that each child has appropriate clothing to get them through the winter, and some toy or other item that they would like to have for Christmas.
Each year, the foundation continues to give more to the children of Surry County. In 2020, the foundation provided clothes and toys for 700 children and supplied more than 250 food boxes to families. Beginning in the 1990s, the organization set out with the hope of feeding 50 families, which seemed arduous to organizers at the time. For almost 30 years, the Surry County Sheriff’s Office and Surry County Schools have worked together to provide food, clothes, and Christmas gifts to those who otherwise would go without every year. The Give a Kid a Christmas Foundation shares the same goal of pushing forward against the challenges of life. If we continue to push forward, we can focus on the positives and pay our good energy forward. Regardless, I believe there is only one thing we can do when confronted with difficult times Push forward. There is no doubt in my mind that the past few holiday seasons have been hard. Editor’s Note: Community Comment is a feature of The Mount Airy News, presenting commentary from community leaders in Mount Airy and Surry County.