Copyright Joliet, IL Patch
Sabine Lemmo, an Alamo resident who has fostered more than 25 children, founded Fostering Wishes, a nonprofit to improve the lives of foster children by providing essential resources, emotional support, and opportunities for growth. Fostering Wishes is launching its Holiday Gift Drive to bring joy, warmth, and sense of belonging to local foster children during the holiday season. The centerpiece of the Holiday Gift Drive is the Wish Tree program. Each year following Thanksgiving, partner businesses put up trees full of wish tags that provide links to items foster children would like for the holidays. They are currently looking for volunteers who can help prepare the trees, move the trees to partner locations during the week of Thanksgiving from Nov. 22-25, track and organize the donated items, and collect gifts from the partner sites and bring them back to headquarters. Anyone looking to help can also visit a partner business location, select a wish tag, purchase the item, and return the unwrapped gift to the drop site. They can also shop on the nonprofit’s Amazon Wish List and have it shipped directly to Fostering Wishes, or simply donate money. For more information and to get involved, visit fosteringwishes.org, or email contact@fosteringwishes.org.
