2018 Still time to donate to Give A Christmas

Give A Christmas, which is run by the Levittown-Bristol Kiwanis Club in partnership with the Bucks County Courier Times, works year after year to give at least 4,000 Bucks children a smile on Christmas morning. This year, Give A Christmas has enough to give some vouchers to financially struggling families, but still not enough to reach the $120,000 fundraising goal.

Times were beyond difficult. And Christmas was coming.

A Middletown mother of three left her abusive husband to start a new life. Shortly after she was diagnosed with two types of cancer, giving her three to five years to live. Instead of fully enjoying time left with her children, she worried how she would feed them as she fought a constant battle with Social Security disability and Medicare.

Thanks to your heartwarming donations to Give A Christmas, those kids, and thousands more, experienced the spirit of a giving during the holiday season.

“My children are my pride and joy, and the reason I do everything. I would give them my life, if I had to,” the mother wrote to Give A Christmas last year. “And it is because of my children that I decided in 2010 to leave their father who was abusing me.”

Her story is at the heart of Give A Christmas, with the community helping neighbors in need throughout Lower Bucks by alleviating some of life’s burden a little around Christmas.

Give A Christmas, which is run by the Levittown-Bristol Kiwanis Club in partnership with the Bucks County Courier Times, works year after year to give at least 4,000 Bucks children a smile on Christmas morning. This year, Give A Christmas has enough to give some vouchers to financially struggling families, but still not enough to reach the $120,000 fundraising goal.

It’s not too late to donate. The Give A Christmas campaign will take money well after Christmas, saving it for the following year. You can donate anytime throughout the year.

It makes a difference to the child who has a new toy or the one who is warm and cozy in the winter jacket that was purchased and gifted with the assistance of a $25 voucher that donors help fund.

One Bensalem mother struggling last year to give her two children a Christmas with gifts under the tree was grateful for the help.

“I will really appreciate to see the little ones with a smile on their little faces,” she wrote to Give A Christmas.

You made those smiles happen.

The fund gets all kinds of requests for assistance, including grandparents caring for their grandchildren, single fathers who have just enough to keep the household running and single moms dealing with health issues, making it difficult to work.

“I am (in) desperate need for Christmas,” wrote another single mother last year. “The person I was living with decided to leave without notice and left me with rent and all the bills to pay. My paychecks for December now have to cover my December rent.”

Your generous donations brought Christmas to this home. Make it happen for other families in need during the holiday season.

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