Story at a glance
- The Red Sled Santa Foundation is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that works to provide gifts and essential items for families in need of aid during the holidays.
- The nonprofit started Project Fill the Sleigh, in which more than 400 students in the area come together with members of the organization to help assemble handmade toys to gift to the children.
- The nonprofit organization then collaborates with Samaritan’s Purse to send the gifts and items to needy children across the globe.
Santa Claus is teaming up with friends in Los Angeles to help those in need this holiday season.
Called the Red Sled Santa Foundation, this Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization works to provide gifts and essential items for families in need of aid during the holidays. The nonprofit started Project Fill the Sleigh to help make these Christmas wishes come true.
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Through Project Fill the Sleigh, more than 400 students in the area come together with members of the organization to help assemble handmade toys to gift to the children.
The nonprofit organization then collaborates with Samaritan’s Purse to send the gifts and items to needy children across the globe.
“Some of them come from, you know, challenged environments, and maybe they’re not living in the best means,” a foundation representative, known as Santa, told ABC 7. “What a great group to bring in and teach them a skill. Something that they could use with their hands. They could use their creativity, and mostly, they learn to give.”
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