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Operation Gift Giving - Three Happy Folk
I know we just went over this in the post all about giving at Christmas last week, but it really is so important to me to help others. I often don’t like to watch the evening news, it makes me anxious and all I can think while trying to fall asleep is how the world is going to shit. But tonight I caught a few minutes of tonight’s broadcast where they showed food banks in Alberta stocking up and stated that the need for food banks in Alberta has gone up 23% this year…what does that mean? Well it went on to report that the need for food banks in the rest of Canada have gone up 1% this year. That is just overwhelming to me. As someone who worked for years with the populations that access these services it makes me sick to think of all the hungry little empty bellies going to bed tonight. But then again, we can’t do it all, so let’s do what we can. This year my daughter’s preschool is participating in Operation Christmas Child where we fill a shoe box with toys, school supplies and lots more and it is then sent to …