What? Volunteer work at the Montgomery County Christmas Store
Where? Downtown Christiansburg
When? Saturday morning, November 10
A couple of hours after returning from my night out, I headed over towards Christiansburg to help the folks of the Christmas Store with eligibility. For complete information about the Christmas Store, please check out the link at the bottom of this page. In essence, the Christmas Store is an organization that strives to provide disfavored citizens of Montgomery County with an opportunity to feel as regular citizens during Christmas. Families in difficult financial situations are interviewed, points are awarded based on the number of children, disabled, and senior people living in the household, and the total income. Points can be exchanged for clothes, toys, and gifts during the first week of December, when the store opens.
I've seen it all at the Christmas store. From 16 year olds girls carrying their babies on their hip to seniors who can't write but served the nation in various wars. Disabled grandmothers taking care of their grandsons after their mother was arrested and put behind bars. Poverty is not discriminatory, whites, blacks, asians, africans, latinos all come to the store; everybody has a jaw-dropping story to tell. The truth is, these people are my neighbors. How can I think about Sudan or Tibet when my neighbors are in dire need?
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