Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Holiday Shopping Spree & Gift Wrapping Party!

On Saturday, December 5th approximately 100 Homestretch staff, volunteers, and clients showed up at the K-Mart in Annandale, VA for our annual Holiday Shopping Spree & Gift Wrapping Party.

Every year all of our school aged children go to K-Mart and buy a $10 gift for each member of their family for the Holidays. Volunteers come out and help the children navigate throughout the store, and help the kids buy the presents. After the children buy their gifts we have a gift wrapping party at a local church.

This is one of Homestretch’s favorite events where we try and teach the children of our program the joy of giving and not just receiving. This year we had a fun filled day full of shopping, wrapping presents, arts and crafts, and games.