With the start of the holiday season, Portland community members are
thinking inside the box with the annual Shoebox Project.
Kacy
Goeckel, a teacher at Portland
High School who helps organize the project, said Shoebox Project
participants fill empty shoeboxes with small gifts for children in need in the
Portland School District.
The chair of the Portland Community Fund’s
Christmas Giving Committee, Lisa
Balderson, said PHS students and staff collaborate with the community fund
for the project.
“They get with us at the community fund and they ask for a
list of all kids that we give to, and they supply a shoebox for each one of
those kids,” said Balderson.
Balderson said every child 18-years-old and younger in a
family receiving other holiday assistance from the community fund gets a shoebox
filled with gender and age specific gifts.
According to Balderson, Portland Community Fund records said
1,539 children received filled shoeboxes between the years 2009 and 2013.
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