Angels in the Attic hosts fundraiser for Christmas Assistance Program - ABC 57 News

SAINT JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. --- Most radical don’t marque their Christmas lists oregon store for presents until the calendar flips to December, but for immoderate successful Michiana, the vacation craze begins successful September.

“We inactive person truthful galore days betwixt present and Christmas that we’ll person caller victims and families that are successful request of help,” says Kristine Kuroski, laminitis of Angels successful the Attic.

The section nonprofit Angels successful the Attic supports women and children who conflict financially aft leaving abusive situations. Donors tin motion up to follow a household oregon simply donate wealth that goes towards putting presents nether the trees due to the fact that for them, Christmas tin beryllium stressful, alternatively than cheerful.

“We person moms and children we assistance each year, and astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth they person the accidental to capable retired an application. It requires the ma to beryllium moving but inactive not making ends meet, struggling, truthful we’re going to supply Christmas for her kids and herself this year,” Kuroski explains. “We’re not getting moms that constitute successful asking for the play presumption oregon the motorcycle for their kids, we’re getting moms who request wintertime coats and boots.”

It’s much than conscionable gifting toys to children but making definite they and their parents tin bask Christmas without worrying whether oregon not they tin enactment nutrient connected the array too.

“Somebody helped maine for Christmas and past my kid had everything, but my kid wanted to cognize similar ‘Why didn’t Santa travel for mom?’, truthful I’m precise beardown astir making definite moms person thing too,” says Kuroski. “As a parent, you privation to springiness your kids the satellite truthful erstwhile you’re successful that spot of buying groceries oregon getting gifts, it’s a pugnacious choice.”

By adopting a family, you tin acquisition the joyousness of a accepted Christmas and assistance a kid judge successful the magic of Santa.

“I deliberation everybody wants to cognize for Christmas that what they’re doing is truly getting to the radical who request it, and it’s successful their community, and they’re helping and they’re making a difference,” Kuroski says. “So, we emotion the accidental that we get to contiguous to the assemblage to articulation us.”

The past time to driblet disconnected gifts for a household is connected December 10^th. To larn however to donate oregon follow a household this vacation season, you tin sojourn the Angels successful the Attic website.