When we started Birthdays For All, we hit the ground running by setting up a website, telling our friends and family about it, started raising a bit of money, and went out to get presents. Before long we had a room full of presents in our house ready to wrap for the Foster children with birthdays in June. I don’t think we really thought about how much time and work it would take to actually hand wrap all the presents, write all the birthday cards, and put them all in nice bags. Luckily for me, most of my time was taken up by my day job and working on this website. So poor Steffi had to spend many days and hours doing it all by herself, and on top of that, had to stop our kids from constantly trying to unwrap them.
When it came round to doing it all again for the July birthdays, we knew we needed help. So we asked our Facebook friends to come join us for a Wrapping Party at the Law Offices of William A Green. People showed up and helped us wrap about 100 presents for 28 kids in Foster Care and Intensive Foster Care. They did it with smiles, cookies and root beer. I, of course, was watching it all happen through the lens of my camera, but it was such a joy to see!
We’d like to thank each of our amazing volunteers for coming out and making our lives easier and the lives of these children that much more special. Thank you all so much!
If you’re interested in volunteering with us, we are having another Wrapping Party on July 26th 2015. Please ‘Like’ us on Facebook and sign up to the event.
We also need more donations to help us with our mission to provide each and every one of those children in Foster Care and Intensive Foster Care with a birthday present. Even a small $5 dollar gift will help buy a small present.
