For a number of years now, the non-profit Put on It Nicely has teamed up with Toys for Tots.
Put on It Nicely Founder Katina Tucker is the Toys for Tots coordinator for Pontotoc and Union Counties.
“We don’t really feel that anybody ought to go with no interval, however in the case of children, that’s one other subject. Youngsters wish to be beloved. On the subject of the Christmas season, no child needs to get up with out something. That’s a mission for Toys for Tots, to ensure each child has one thing to open on Christmas,” Tucker stated.
Donations of toys have been collected within the acquainted Toys for Tots bins at companies throughout the world. Now, it’s time to kind all of them out for households to choose up.
“After they’re sorted, we begin to bag them up by ages or the checklist we obtain for folks who signed their kids up,” stated April Rawls, of Put on It Nicely.
Whereas it appears like there are lots of toys on this room which have been collected, take into consideration this. Every of those tags represents a household with children who nonetheless want toys for Christmas, and that’s the place you’ll be able to assist out
“Our infants and our ten to twelve-year-olds, these are the toys we get the least donations of,’ Tucker stated.
Tucker factors out that donations might be dropped off on Wednesday between 10 am and 6 pm on the UAM constructing on Lemons Drive. They will additionally use volunteers to assist kind the toys.
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