Northwest Assistance Ministries (NAM) is in need of toy donations and volunteers to assist with its annual Holiday Blessings campaign.
Each year NAM supplies local families in need with gifts for their children and staples necessary for preparing holiday meals. Ingredients for a full holiday meal, complete with a turkey, vegetables, side dishes and dessert, are provided at Thanksgiving and a second full meal is provided in December, along with toys for families with children.
These are pre-registered events, and all recipients are clients of NAM. Registration to receive food and toys opened in September for eligible applicants and closed after only eight hours once NAM reached its capacity for the number of families it could serve.
On Saturday, November 20, NAM staff and volunteers distributed food to prepare Thanksgiving dinners to 1,400 families in northwest Houston. As the second distribution approaches in December, NAM is still greatly in need of toys and volunteers.
New, unwrapped toys in the range of approximately $25 per gift for newborn through age 12 may be dropped off at The Harrell Family Opportunity Center located behind NAM’s main building at 15555 Kuykendahl Road, Houston, Texas 77090, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. until Monday, December 6, 2021. Anyone interested in volunteering can get more information and submit a volunteer application at www.namonline.org/volunteer.
Last year NAM provided holiday meals for 1,700 local families and toys for 5,500 children.
Northwest Assistance Ministries is a non-profit, community-based social service agency that strives to meet basic human needs through Neighbors Helping Neighbors. NAM provides assistance in areas such as food, shelter, health, education and domestic violence awareness and intervention. During its last fiscal year, NAM touched the lives of more than 136,000 people through its many programs and services.