Hawks Players Clint Capela, John Collins, Cam Reddish and Delon Wright
Surprised Families as Part of Special Event in Collaboration with ‘Santa For A Day’ and Atlanta Housing
ATLANTA – On Saturday afternoon, the Atlanta Hawks hosted a vacation enactment successful collaboration with Santa For A Day, a non-religiously affiliated non-profit organization that answers letters to Santa from underserved children, ages 5-12, surviving successful nationalist lodging properties and provides them with vacation gifts, basal needs, and acquisition supplies; and Atlanta Housing (AH), the largest public housing authorization successful Georgia.
Hawks players Clint Capela, John Collins, Cam Reddish and Delon Wright made a astonishment appearance at the party and were joined by members of Hawks Entertainment including Harry the Hawk, ATL Hawks Dancers and the Flight Crew arsenic good arsenic assorted squad executives.
“We are grateful to person an accidental to bring immoderate vacation cheer to this peculiar radical of children in the Atlanta assemblage with some gifts and with astonishment appearances from Cam, Clint, John and Delon,” said Hawks Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility Andrea Carter. “To person Hawks players instrumentality the clip to travel present and link with these families is what it means to beryllium ‘True to Atlanta.’”
Joining the Hawks were volunteers from ‘Santa For A Day’ who joined unneurotic to distribute nearly 1,500 gifts to children and their families. The day was afloat of amusive holiday-themed activities, which included treats, games and arts and crafts.
“We’re truthful grateful to the Atlanta Hawks for surprising, delighting and bringing smiles to each of these children, helping to marque this a vacation they won’t forget,” said Rich Gentile, the program’s enforcement director. “Our purpose is to scope into arsenic galore of Atlanta’s astir underserved areas and demonstrate, by example, the healing powerfulness of ‘goodness successful the look of adversity.’”
As portion of an on-going concern between Santa For A Day and AH, the 2 organizations work together to scope children successful section communities and supply them a harmless method for contacting families to some cod children’s letters for Santa and later administer the presents. In 2020, the two organizations provided gifts to Atlanta’s youth, a bulk of whom unrecorded beneath the national poorness line.
“On behalf of the Atlanta Housing committee and staff, I widen vacation greetings and a lukewarm convey you to our partners Santa for a Day and the Atlanta Hawks for their generosity to our young residents and their families,” said Atlanta Housing President and CEO Eugene Jones, Jr.
This past Saturday’s event was a continuation of the Hawks’ ‘Season of Giving’ initiatives, which has also included providing much than 150 students with new eyeglasses imaginativeness screenings and caller eyeglasses through a partnership from the Atlanta Hawks Foundation, Vision To Learn and Fulton County Schools. In addition, earlier this month, the Hawks and Georgia Power teamed up for a tree-lighting event, featuring Hawks prima John Collins, at Dobbins Air Reserve Base (Marietta, Ga.) and provided about 100 subject work members with Christmas trees and different gifts.
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