Back & Neck Institute and North Florida Medical Center have teamed up to make Christmas very special for the children of Florida Baptist Children's Home.
The children's home has 17 orphaned children, along with 5 additional children with single mothers in extreme hardship. We took on the task of making the Christmas of these amazing kids unlike any they've experienced thus far.
We asked all the children to write letters to Santa an ask for anything that truly wanted. Unfortunately, the letters we received had requests for items like toothbrushes, soap, "the good toilet paper", etc. These letters broke our hearts, and truly put into perspective just how incredible fortunate some of us are.
We are fully fulfilling the initial wishlist of primarily hygiene products the children asked for. But, we asked the caretakers to instruct the children to re-write the letters and wish for anything; games, toys, electronics, books, etc. Now, we have an actual list of items any child with a home would want. And we plan to fulfill the entire wishlist.
To do this, we need your help, along with the help of your friends and family. On December 16th, our entire team will go out to make the purchase of the children's full wishlist. December 16th is our deadline to raise $10,000.
Half of the proceeds will go towards the winner from for the raffle. Half will go towards the children directly.
We ask that you buy a raffle tickets for an incredible cause, then ask your friends/family to buy them as well, then buy some more for yourself. We all have the opportunity to make Christmas truly special for some amazing children in a very unfortunate circumstance.