Huron Township - Goodfellows Christmas Event

The Rotary Club of Huron Township is the Huron Township Fellowship Club.  They organized and implemented one of the largest community service projects in Rotary District 6400!  Their goal is to have "No Child Without a Christmas." The first phase of this project was to mobilize many community organizations to volunteer their time standing on the streets to collect over $6,000. There was a phone hotline for families to call for specific needs.
The second phase was to calculate how much toys, food and certificates to have ready. Other monies came from the Huron Twp Rotary Club and other resources. Then many people purchased a vast amount of toys and food.
Then 330+ people of all ages participated in sorting, packing, and distributing over the three days - Friday, Saturday, Sunday. This is an amazing number of people who are randomly called together for one very needed cause. When you consider that the common link is for someone else to have a better Christmas - or to have one. it could be a casual conversation, an article in the paper, or a membership in an organization, that gets the word out, HuronTownsip Rotary certainly demonstrates that they can and do what is best, putting Service above Self

These photos show the Goodfellows collecting money all over the township, the vast amount of toys that were sorted by age and gender, volunteers packing large boxes full of food, large bag of potatoes, turkey and apples for each family and many volunteers packing toys for specific children.  The last photo show the line of cars that are waiting for the gifts that are delivered to their cars.
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