“Wow, a new lego Captain Jack Sparrow. It’s what I always wanted,” said Jackson as he opened a gift sent to him from a local toy drive. Another boy sitting next to him whines about his package, “I already have a spider man pencil box at school. This is so lame.” Wrapping paper lines the hallways and dining hall area as young boys ravage the boxes which are given to them while “Jingle Bell Rock” blares through an old PA sound system. Many staff and volunteers have put several hours and hours of effort into filling up boxes for these children, as the boys from the therapeutic facility finish the school work they have before the end of the semester.
Thousands of dollars of merchandise and donations going to shopping center pour into the in box of administration building of the children’s center. The reality for most of these boys is not making a mad dash from school on the 23rd to celebrate Christmas with their families and friends.
