2018 Holiday Drive Generates 100s of Smiles
Our 2018 holiday project is in the books! Completely in awe at the 600+ folks from the community that engaged with us over the last month to make the holidays a little brighter for 197 local homeless children.
From the girl scouts who decorated stockings to the youth sports teams that made cookies to the businesses and organizations that ‘adopted’ kids to the kindness elves that showed up today to pull it ALL together...more than 2,000 items wrapped, stuffed and tagged, with a message of paying it forward!
At Empower4Life, this time of year is not about the gifts or the things; it’s about the spirit of gratitude, grace and giving. It’s about peace within yourself and bestowed upon others. It’s about helping people understand that “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand”. (Dr. Seuss).
To our team at E4L that has worked tirelessly to pull this off...you’re simply spectacular.
To Suzanna Rosa, who opened up her home to almost complete strangers, we are ETERNALLY grateful.
For those of you that doubt that there is good left in the world—reread this, check out our pictures and imagine these smiles (that may otherwise be tears) in 9 short days!
Thank you to the hundreds of individuals that participated in this project, as well as the groups/organizations listed below:
Kingsville elementary school
Erickson Cares
Johns Hopkins
Womble Bond Dickinson
Pediatric Partners
Yanksgiving
King Management Group
77 Perry Hall girls
Premier soccer club U12 navy boys
Perry Hall/Kingsville Lions Club
Hunts Church Preschool
The Spa on the Avenue
Richardson Farms
Rock Paper Scisdor hair salon
TLC lacrosse club
The Nanny Network
Black awareness club at Carver Center
Baltimore Union soccer club
Baltimore Union 06 classic girls
Baltimore Union club U11 elite girls
Baltimore Union boys 09
Baltimore Union soccer club 2008 girls select
Ruxton animal hospital
Celtic thunder 2008
Daisy Troop 1521
Girl Scout Troop 1498, 1437, 1538
Patapsco High school basketball