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Holiday Adopt-A-Family

Holiday Adopt-A-Family

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Help Friends of Karen deliver gifts and smiles for the holidays!

Grab your friends and your colleagues to help bring smiles to critically ill children and their siblings. Every child looks forward to the holidays but when parents are struggling to care for a child with cancer or another life-threatening illness, there’s no time for shopping or even thinking about the holidays or buying gifts. You can make sure Friends of Karen critically ill children, and their siblings experience the joys of celebrating the holidays.

Here’s how it works:

We ask parents to send us their children’s wish lists. Then a caring person like you “adopts” them by filling their wish list. You can choose to buy for one child or several children – it’s entirely up to you. We also like to send each family grocery gift cards of $50 or more to ShopRite, Stop & Shop, Target, Walmart, Visa, or MasterCard to help with their holiday meal.

Go shopping!

Once you have made your selection, fulfilled the wish list and are ready to ship the items to us, be sure to include a gift message with your last name/child id so that we can identify your items. Please make sure to attach activation receipts to any gift card purchases.

We welcome donations of gift wrap, tape, bows and holiday candy so parents can see what is sent and have the pleasure of wrapping the holiday presents.

Please remember you are making a meaningful commitment to provide gifts for your Friends of Karen child/children. If you cannot find the specific item on their wish list, please call us immediately.

Send checks and gifts to:

Holiday Adopt-a-Family c/o Friends of Karen;
118 Titicus Road; North Salem NY 10560

For more information or if you prefer to adopt without using the online system, contact:

allisonwatson@friendsofkaren.org
Or call Allison at 914-617-4054

LI donors please call 631-473-1768.

If you prefer that we do the shopping for you, we gratefully accept cash contributions designated for the Adopt-A-Family Program.

A gift of:

$100 will fill the wish list of one critically ill child.

$200 will fill the wish list of one critically ill child and their sibling.

$300 will fill the wish list of one critically ill child and their siblings.