Calling All Angels
Last Updated: 15 January 2016
Approximately 82,000 keiki and seniors in Hawaii receive a Christmas gift through The Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program. Give Christmas joy this year!
“Our team is exhausted from sorting and packing Angel tree gifts, but if you could just see those hopeful faces waiting outside for their gifts, you’ll see why we spend so many weeks, days, and hours preparing for this day,” said Major Jonnette Mulch at The Salvation Army Kauluwela Mission Corps in Honolulu. Major Mulch and her husband, Major Randy Mulch manage and fulfill approximately 5,000 angel tree tags for their corps each year.
The Salvation Army Angel Tree program serves keiki and seniors in most need in Hawaii. Each corps community center opens up their doors and asks families in need what they need and want this Christmas. Each wish is placed on an Angel Tree tag that a generous family can fulfill. “The things they wish for are so simple: a toaster, clothes, new shoes for school, books,” said Major Randy Mulch. “These are things most people take for granted.”
Angel Tree tags are then distributed amongst Angel Tree booths at shopping malls statewide. Corporate partners Central Pacific Bank and Burger King also distribute angel tree tags. For tags that go unfulfilled, The Salvation Army corps officers will use money donated to purchase the gifts for each tag.
In Guam, a similar program called Toy N Joy provides Christmas gifts for approximately 2,000 children each year and also gives each family a box of food.