Christmas Baskets

Monday, December 14, 2009

Today we spent the day at the club organizing Christmas baskets for the kids. There were SOOOOOO many donations to organize and distribute. We laid out papers with the kids names on it throughout the entire club, and their age. Then we started opening boxes and distributing according to what we thought was appropriate for the kids. We had toys, clothes, shoes, so much great stuff. We had two Mothers helping us - one of them being Sonja, and they said this morning when they saw everything "this is going to be the best Christmas for my kids ever"!
The thing is about these Christmas baskets, is that they will provide the kids with gifts for Christmas that they may not have had otherwise.







Throughout the day, kids were stopping by, a lot of the older boys since there was supposed to be English class today. However since we wanted the gifts to be a surprise we had to cancel the class. But it was great - a lot of the boys stopped in, and I was able to have lots of little reunions, and introduce them to my Mom. It was so awesome.








It was a lot of fun organizing the baskets. I can't wait to see the kids faces when they open their gifts. When we were done the baskets, we spent the rest of the day organizing the club. Sorting through supplies and rearraning everything. It was a lot of work, but it was fun thinking of things we could do with the kids with all of the supplies we have had donated. At the end of the day we felt very productive.