Each year in November, the Daniel Island Community Fund partners with HALOS, a nonprofit organization that serves grandparents, other relatives, and family friends (called Kinship Caregivers) who are raising children to keep them out of foster care with strangers, in their Angel Tree Holiday Drive.
During the holiday season, many Kinship Caregivers face increased stress while trying to support their families. The HALOS Angel Tree Holiday Drive offers community partners like us a chance to spread joy and happiness to children within the HALOS organization by purchasing holiday gifts for them.
Through this drive, we provide the community with a list that includes each child’s age, gender, race, and gift wishes. Community members can sign up to sponsor a child. The sponsor then shops for one or more gifts that the child is wishing for. After purchasing the gifts, the sponsor brings them, unwrapped, to our office by December 3rd. On December 9th, our POA Staff will deliver all the gifts to HALOS for distribution to the families before the holidays.
This year, DICF has committed to sponsoring 200 children. We’ve just received our virtual Angel Tree from HALOS. You can view the Angel Tree HERE. To sign up to sponsor a child, click the green “sign up” button on the right and fill out your information. You will receive a confirmation email with the information for your child as well as the drop off information.
If you have any questions, please reach out to our office at (843) 971-9200 or info@dicommunity.org.
Volunteer with HALOS
HALOS is always looking for volunteers to join them during this time of giving. There are several opportunities to volunteer with HALOS and donate your time. Please click HERE to view volunteer opportunities. If you have questions about volunteering, please reach out to Ashley Grimball at Ashley@CharlestonHALOS.org.
