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Eliada Needs Your Help This Holiday Season
Each year, Eliada reaches out to the community to help make Christmas brighter for children and adolescents who are living away from home due to abuse, neglect, or other challenges. This year, the economic climate has intensified the agency’s need for Christmas sponsors and donations. Here are just a few of the ways you can help:
Sponsor a Child
Each year, Eliada seeks caring individuals, businesses, churches, and families to help make Christmas brighter for children in need. Sponsors can elect to give a cash gift or shop for children using “wish lists” that the children create. We ask each sponsor to limit their spending to a designated amount to ensure that gifts are equitable amongst the kids.
Sponsor a Cottage
There are also opportunities to sponsor the cottages the children live in- for example, many of the cottages need things that all the children use, such as linens, kitchen utensils, electronics, board games, and more. Two new cottages in particular need basic household items to help provide a warm, homelike atmosphere for children in care.
Give a gift donation in honor or memory of a loved one
This holiday season, instead of material gifts, consider giving in honor or memory of a friend or family member. Eliada will send gift donation recipients a handwritten Christmas card acknowledging your gift. Christmas cards are designed by our students and feature holiday artwork by students in our programs.
Consider a gift to Eliada
Christmas is traditionally a season of giving. Like many nonprofits, Eliada relies heavily on these year-end gifts to sustain the many programs and services we provide throughout the year. In light of the troubled economy, Eliada’s needs are greater than ever.
Help provide for holiday meals and celebrations
Gifts of Christmas decorations, grocery store gift cards, and monetary donations are always needed for Christmas festivities.
Eliada wishes to thank the community for remembering children in need this holiday season. For more information on any of these opportunities, please contact Carolyn Ashworth at 828.254.5356 x 113 or via email at [email protected].
