Help HSP “Wrap Things Up” For Needy Kids

Humanitarian Service Project is looking for volunteers to help us wrap gifts for the needy children served in our Children’s Birthday Project. Among the roughly 900 children served through the project, 216 children attend Lake Park Elementary in Addison. Because of the great amount of need at the school (almost 90% of the student body relies on subsidized school lunches) HSP delivers birthday boxes to the children at the school every month. In mid-May, HSP has committed to delivering the gifts for these children to Lake Park, to give the school ample time to get the boxes out before summer break.

To accomplish this, HSP still needs to have the gifts for about 30 needy children, at the school, wrapped in the next couple of weeks. Here is how you can help out. Volunteers interested in wrapping gifts for needy children can call HSP, at 630-221-8340, to have some bags of wrapping put aside for them. Volunteers then can come and pick up the gifts, take them home, and wrap them up. We’ve had a number of great volunteer wrappers in the past who have wrapped gifts either by themselves, or as a family/group project.

Each bag of wrapping contains several new gifts and 6 new books for a needy child. The children we serve at Lake Park Elementary, and all the needy children in our Children’s Birthday Project, come from families who cannot afford to provide them with birthday gifts. In order to give these children the memorable birthdays they deserve, HSP provides each of them with a 20-25 lb. Birthday Box full of 6-10 new gifts, 6 new books, numerous smaller “filler gifts,” and a “party in a box” full of all the supplies needy for an exciting birthday party. Wrapping gifts is a great way for you to be a part of providing birthday smiles to these needy kids!