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Families helping Families
Holiday Giving Initiative
Read the story of one family's experience and the hope
they found through the
Boundless Adventures Young Family Program. |
Thank you very much to everyone who volunteers to donate, buy a toy or book, or
knit for the
children in the Boundless Adventures Young Family Program.
For the past decade, Families Helping Families is
the holiday gift-giving project of Fairlawn Avenue United Church. Our congregation
helps disadvantaged families living in downtown Toronto enjoy a happier
holiday season by providing them with toys, books and knitted hats and mitts.
These families are participants in the Boundless Adventures Young Family
Program, a camp and community-based program for at-risk families with
young children. All families are single parent families and all have experienced
some time of violence in the past. Being a part of Boundless provides the
mothers with greater parenting confidence and satisfaction, greater emotional
support and increased parenting skills and knowledge. The children are given
opportunities for social skill development, increased emotional functioning,
decreased aggressive and maladaptive behaviours, and increased positive beliefs
and expectations. |
Ways to
participate in November/early December
- DONATE A NEW TOY for a child,
- If you would like to donate a toy, please pick up an
information sheet in the assembly hall during coffee hour.
- DONATE A NEW BOOK for a child,
- If you would like to donate a book, please pick up an
information sheet in the assembly hall during coffee hour.
- DONATE MONEY FOR A CHRISTMAS BAG ~ e.g., purchase a $25
pre-bought gift bag for a child and receive a tax receipt, this can be done
during coffee hour by mid November
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DONATE MONEY
to enable us to buy grocery store gift cards for each family (either at
coffee hour or by marking collection plate donations)
- KNIT HATS AND MITTS for the children.
If you wish to knit, but can't afford to buy
yarn, free
yarn is available at the church entrances.
Deadline
To participate in the
Families Helping Families program, please drop off your toys, books,
gifts, financial donations, knitted hats and mitts at the church office
in the first week of December, or drop your donations off in the boxes
provided at church on the last Sunday of November and the first Sunday
in December. Thank you very much for participating.
If you have any questions, please
contact Laura Ziliotto.
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