We could really use your help with a donation to our Be A
Santa To a Senior Program. Our efforts along with generous donations of
money and goods help make Christmas brighter for lonely, isolated
seniors! Thank you for letting me share information about this wonderful
program with you.
Every year our company – Home Instead Senior Care – sponsors
a program we call Be A Santa to A
Senior. This will be the fifth
year that we have sponsored the program locally. Although we are a for-profit
company, this is a totally non-profit program. Every penny we collect
goes back into the program. And when there is a shortfall… we make up the
difference. Every wish gets filled, regardless!
The Be a Santa To a Senior program grows as more and
more people become aware of it. Last year our office delivered about 3100
gifts to 578 local seniors who would otherwise not have had Christmas. In the last six years Home Instead Senior
Care has delivered nearly 1.5 million gifts to over 700,000 seniors
nationally. Locally we are expecting over 600 names this year if past
trends are repeated.
During the holidays, people don’t often think about isolated
and lonely seniors who need to be remembered. Be A Santa To A Senior is designed to stimulate human
contact and social interaction for older adults who are unlikely to have guests
or receive gifts. During the Month of November we place “ornaments” on
trees or wreaths at participating merchants or banks. Someone takes an
ornament, fills the wishes and returns the gifts to the merchant. We pick
up the gifts at the beginning of December. We then make sure each one is
complete, wrapped, properly marked and ready for the recipient. We then
deliver the gifts around the third week of December.
Invariably, we face challenges….every “ornament” is not
taken, some of the wishes are left out, sizes are wrong, what was purchased was
completely different than what was requested, and so on.
Your donation will help us correct these issues and insure
that every lonely senior has a wonderful holiday experience. Please call Home Instead of Savannah at 912-355-0099 to find out more or to make a donation.
