A huge thank you to everyone for making our holiday toy drive a success. We distributed 2,020 toys & gift cards with the families we serve at the TP/SS apartments (Cambridge, Winslow, Hampshire Tower, Essex House, Park Ritchie, Parkview Towers, Blair Park, Edinburgh, Hancock Gardens, Maple View, MHP 610-614, Colonnade at the Creek, Sligo Creek, Langley Gardens), TP/SS families that we serve at our drive by distributions, TPSS Coop staff, Title I school Meadow Hall ES, and 15 families in Rockville.

Special shout out to all the groups that helped with toys (Lithko Contracting, Nexight Group, TPSS Co-op, Tabletopdc, Takoma Park Child Development Center, Takoma Montessori School – TMS, Old Takoma Ace Hardware, Silver Spring Ace Hardware, Olive Lounge & Grill, Wegmans Germantown, Child’s Play, Starbucks Coffee Westside, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Bethesda, MD, Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, The Senior Connection, Thomas W. Pyle Middle School, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Studio Of Colour and Design By Margie Billian, Helping Hands Army, Herson’s Honda), our amazing and generous community for toys, gift cards, and monetary donations, Takoma Park Presbyterian Church for donating their chapel and 5th floor space so that we could sort and store the toys, elves (Mary, Chris, Manuela, Christine, Erica, James, Cameron, Colman, River) who sorted and assigned presents to the kids, and site coordinators (Doris, Jackie, Nafkote, Leda, Eva, Angel, Zina, Pamela, Flor, Wendy) who distributed the presents within the apartments. Thank you everyone for helping these children have a nice holiday season!