By: Shelia Williams
Orlando Fl-- Toys for Tots is a U.S. Marine Corp program dedicated to collecting and delivering toys to children who either doesn't have a home of their own, doesn't have any parents, or their family are just in a financial crisis.
This year the organization has a mission. Their mission is to make give hope and joy to boys and girls in the country by delivering toys to unwrap on either Christmas Day, on the seven days of Kwanzaa, or on Hanukkah.
The Walt Disney Company is a proud supporter of this organization and is promoting all of their employees to participate in this by asking either to donate an unwrapped new toy or volunteer. Or what they can VoluntEAR. So far Walt Disney is a two-star partners who has either contributed at least one hundred thousand dollars in cash or five hundred thousand dollars in toys.
Other partners like Office Depot and The Cocoa Cola Company has also donated around that amount too.
On the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation website it announces it's productivity from 1991 to 2005, the foundation supplemented local toy collections with 64.5 million toys that valued at $344 million. Concurrently, the Foundation provided over $3.9 million worth of promotion and support materials, which enable local Toys for Tots coordinators to conduct more effective local campaigns.
Toys for Tots began in 1947. It started with Bill Hendricks,a USMCR (U.S. Marine Corp. Reserve) and a couple of other Reservies in Los Angeles collected and distributed 5, 00 toys to needy children. Of course the idea came from his wife when she suggested that he should start one.
If you would like to know more information about Toys for Tots or you would like to know where you can donate a gift or money to the program just visit the website http://www.toysfortots.org/ or Gy Sgt Andrell Durden at (407)341-9165.
Monday, December 8, 2008
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