The Seafair Pirates' Holiday Treasure Chest

The Seafair Pirates' Holiday Treasure Chest
It only takes one person to make a difference	While we’re a notoriously scurvy bunch, we Pirates have big hearts and simply can’t stand the thought that there will be children that wake up Christmas morning with nothing to open. With that in mind, in 1996, we began the Holiday Treasure Chest program. We discovered that far too many families were going without a Christmas because they were unable to find assistance. The Seafair Pirates heard the need, and met the challenge to help these deserving folks. That is how our program was born. Since the creation of our program, with the help of local businesses and “Pirate Santa’s” throughout the community, we have served thousands of individual families, We have provided countless tons of food and goods to local service providing charities and distributed tens of thousands of new gifts to children throughout the Puget Sound region. We distribute throughout the Puget Sound area. We are constantly on the lookout for donated warehouse space as the holidays approach. As soon as we have established a “home base”, we begin filling it with our collections from the community and the purchases that we make. We create two areas within the warehouse. One holds the “treasures” where our clients can come and choose gifts for their children and the other holds our foodstuffs.	The families will receive enough food for the holidays and countless days after the holidays have passed. With greater resources and more diligence, we know that we could have served an even greater number of deserving families. For this reason, we have begun our efforts even earlier this year. We began organizing immediately following the Torchlight Parade and are currently accepting donations as well as taking names of individuals interested in volunteering. In order to make this program a success we spend countless hours acquiring the necessary goods and funds. It doesn’t end there however. If at all possible, we spend individual time speaking with each family and ascertain their needs. If we find that there is a special request, we will network within the community to fulfill it if at all possible. We also want to give credit where credit is due, therefore thank you for the role you play in making our program possible. We would not be able to continue our work without your kindness and generosity. You are truly a tribute to compassion and we value each and every one of you.
HOLIDAY TREASURE CHEST P.O. Box 27638 Seattle, WA 98165-2638 Phone: 206-365-1590 Fax: 206-365-1639
But together we can make an impact!	How You Can Help
	Monetary / Product Donation N Gift Cards! These allow us the flexibility to donate the card to a family or use it to fulfill a specific gift request N Check (Made payable to Seafair Pirates-HTC) N Gas Cards (This helps the families that do not have transportation and rely on their friends and family as well as the families that drive themselves and are low on funds.) N Donate a new unwrapped toy or gift item. (Please remember when purchasing that we distribute gifts to all age groups up through age 18. We find that teenagers are oft en neglected during the purchasing process.)	Volunteer Opportunities N Wrap Donation Boxes N Pick up donations from local businesses N Assemble Food Boxes N After all the toys have been purchased and collected - there comes the task of getting everything ready for pick-up. This requires a great deal of sorting and organizing in the days preceding pick-up as well as helping parents on distribution days.


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