CFHH Seeks Assistance with Holiday Giving

Cy-Fair Helping Hands Seeks Assistance with Holiday Giving

By Patricia Hudson

Thanksgiving Blessings Boxes Cards of Hope

Cy-Fair Helping Hands will be distributing Thanksgiving Did you know that there are hundreds of Blessings Boxes, (contents for a complete Thanksgiving meal, homeless students in CFISD? The together with a $20 - $25 WalMart gift card for a turkey or ham), holiday season is a bleak time for those to clients and families in need in the Cy-Fair community. living from day to day, not knowing where CFHH is requesting assistance with donations for this they will sleep, or if they will even have a Thanksgiving program. We have a goal of providing 620 of these meal to eat. With the help of our boxes for our struggling clients, and others within our community partners, our Homeless Teen community. We have faith that the good people of Cy-Fair will Initiatives’ Cards of Hope program added help to provide the items needed to reach our goal. joy to the lives of 550 CFISD students at Christmas last year Items needed: mac & cheese, apple/peach/cherry pie filling and boxed Jiffy pie crust mix, boxed mashed potatoes, canned sweet when each received a $50 gift card to use as they wished. These needs are even greater this holiday season. potatoes, cranberry sauce, stuffing, canned corn, green beans, and To donate, please email Jean Dreyer, Executive Director of peas, chicken broth or Cream of Mushroom/Cream of Chicken Homeless Initiatives: jean@cyfairhelpinghands.org. Monetary soup, boxed Jiffy Corn Bread mix, and turkey gravy. In order to donations may be made by going to our cyfairhelpinghands.org, meet this goal, 1,240 of each item, and 620 gift cards are needed. to our gift catalog, or may be mailed to: 7710 Cherry Park Drive, Nonperishable donations are requested to be delivered by #T-385, Houston, TX 77095. Sunday, November 15. 7520 Cherry Park Drive, Suite B, Houston, 77095. Email Patricia Hudson, Executive Director of Christmas Stockings Community Outreach: phudson@cyfairhelpinghands.org to arrange delivery dates and times. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, we have made the difficult decision to Monetary donations may be delivered or mailed to: 7710 Cherry cancel our Client Christmas party this Park Drive, #T-385, Houston, TX 77095, or by going to our year. While it is disappointing, we know website, cyfairhelpinghands.org, to our gift catalog. that it is the safest thing to do, and will ensure that volunteers and clients will Download the be safer for it. Instead, with Santa’s help, we plan to hand out Christmas Magazine for FREE! stockings to client children that come through a drive-through visit with the CYPRESS MAGAZINES jolly old elf. Our goal is 500 stockings filled with candy and small toys. For

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