Needy families will receive a visit from Santa this weekend
Morgan Hill – Santa will come a-knocking this weekend, toting gifts for good boys and girls.
South County Housing and City of Dreams have teamed up and are delivering gifts and Christmas trees to 50 needy families from Morgan Hill and Gilroy.
Santa will arrive at families’ front doors today, bringing two or three gifts for the children, a present for each parent, a Christmas tree, Christmas lights and ornaments.
Volunteers spent Friday afternoon wrapping the 300 donated gifts and will return to the office at noon today to begin delivering the holiday goodies.
Morgan Hill resident and business owner Mike Gallagher, a City of Dreams volunteer, helped bring the gift-giving program to South County.
This year the San Francisco-based City of Dreams nonprofit mentoring program for disadvantaged children, worked closely with SCH to find needy families in the Morgan Hill and Gilroy areas.
“They were really instrumental in determining who we should focus on,” said Gallagher.
Even parents aren’t going to be left out of this gift giveaway. Gallagher’s wife held a party this week to assemble the gift baskets for mothers. Dads will receive a Safeway or Nob Hill gift card.
The trees and gifts will be delivered to families in five South County Housing apartment complexes, three of them in Morgan Hill, two in Gilroy and to several families in the Rogers Lane neighborhood in Gilroy.
