HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Be a Santa to a Senior is a community service program that gives back to seniors. Your relationships and personal contact with lonely and financially challenged seniors is critical to the success of this community service effort.
Program Purpose
The purpose of the home Instead Senior Care® community service program, Be a Santa to a Senior®, is to positively impact the community by providing holiday cheer and gift giving to seniors who are least likely to receive a present during the holiday season, are lonely and financially challenged.
- The local Home Instead Senior Care office is developing a Be a Santa to a Senior partnership committee consisting of community leaders and non-profit organizations such as yours.
- The committee will enlist your organization to provide names of seniors as well as gift ideas for each senior.
- Local merchants will place a Christmas tree inside their stores from Nov. 8 through Dec. 13.
- Volunteers will write the first name or code name of the participating senior, and their gift preferences, on a Be a Santa to a senior tree ornament. Each ornament will be placed on the Christmas tree.
- Merchant customers will pull an ornament from the tree and purchase a gift for the specific senior listed in the ornament. the gifts and corresponding ornament will be grouped together and left in the store.
- Gift ideas include functional clothing like slippers, socks or gloves. Other gift ideas include hand lotion, toiletry items, a nice pen and stationery including stamps or a pre-paid phone card.
- Program volunteers will regularly collect gifts and refresh tree ornaments as needed. The final gifts will be collected on Dec. 13.
- Committee members and volunteers will gift wrap and distribute gifts Dec. 14 – 18.
We are grateful of our new sponsor this year, The Medicine Shoppe, and First Bank Kansas is again sponsoring a tree. We place the senior’s first name only and gift ideas on an ornament and place them on the tree for community members to select and purchase a gift. Home Instead Senior Care and community volunteers will then wrap and deliver gifts to the recipients. Thank you for your time and consideration, please don’t hesitate to call if you have any questions.
Home Instead Senior Care
1515 N. Lorraine, Ste. C
Hutchinson, KS 67501
620.662.5556 homeinstead.com/565
