POWER To Adopt Over 75 Families And Assist 50 At-Risk Seniors

Press release from POWER:

Nov. 24, 2020

POWER CHANGES LIVES (“POWER”) is pleased to announce OPERATION HOLIDAY 2020. This year, POWER, through donors, will sponsor twenty (20) “adopted” families, fifty (50) senior citizens, and the homeless in impacted New Jersey areas. These families have been identified by various non-profit, community and local resources. It is the goal that each family is “adopted” by donors to receive items from their wish list. Operation Holiday has already launched and will end on December 11, 2020 to provide support to families by Christmas.

Donors will help families like the Johnson’s who, in addition to losing close relatives due to COVID-19, struggled this year battling with different medical issues that has caused the mother to be in and out of the hospital. As a result, the family is working with the hospitals to resolve medical expenses and in need of some assistance during the holiday season. Their wish list includes items such as slippers, headsets for distance learning, anything "Ryan's World” or "JoJo Siwa", or the James family who the mother is struggling during COVID19, battling with caring for a sick child, and suffering from a severe car accident. Mom is currently under medical care and receiving therapy. Father had emergency heart surgery and still trying to recover after 3 surgeries. Wish list includes items such as Orthopedic memory foam pillow for neck pain, and a Disney Princess Play Gourmet Coffee Maker for her 8-year-old daughter.

Those interested in donating to Operation Holiday 2020 should visit www.OPERATIONHOLIDAY2020.event... choosing a family to “adopt” for the holiday. Donors are provided the family background story and wish list. Once a family is selected, they complete their registration, and are contacted by POWER providing them with the family’s full name, contact phone and shipping information. Donors can also select whether to remain anonymous.

“COVID-19 along with everyday health issues has ravaged households in New Jersey. Parents are struggling to provide food, secure jobs, pay medical bills and rent. Holidays for many of these families only add to the glaring fact that Christmas may not come to these households this year” said Penny Lopez, Chairman. “We are more than confident that our amazing local and extended communities will step up and meet the need where no opportunity to help this year is unmet”.
In addition to Christmas wish lists, POWER is also requesting donations for Senior Connect® that provides Kindle Fire 7 tablet technology to high-risk Seniors, virtually connecting them with their physicians, houses of faith, family and community wellness checks.

POWER is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with focus on Health, Education, Food Insecurity, Housing and Homeless, Aging and Social Justice and Reform. To learn more about POWER, visit www.powerchangeslives.com

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