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Toys For Tots
For many children, waking up on Christmas morning without any gifts is a stark reality. To brighten the holiday, Southwire collects toys each year for the local Toys for Tots chapter.
Originally, the company conducted internal drives with employees that netted several hundred toys. In 2005, a day long collection drive allowed community members to donate as well. Volunteers staged a two-day marathon drive in 2006 with the goal of collecting 2,500 toys. They ended up with more than 3,200. In 2007, Southwire volunteers collected 2,750 toys for Toys for Tots. Last year, with the help of our sponsors, Southwire and members of the community, volunteers collected more than 10,500 toys.
This year on Dec. 1 and 2, Southwire and Toys for Tots will join forces for a community wide toy drive. The drive will last from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. each day in the Southwire Employee Resource Center parking lot on Georgia Highway 27 – across from the Publix shopping center in Carrollton, Ga.
Local residents are encouraged to drop off new, unwrapped toys. Southwire’s Project GIFT truck and volunteers will be on site to collect toys all day. KISS 102.7 and B-92 broadcasting live from the site.
For more information on the toy drive, call the Project GIFT hotline at (770) 832-4729. To talk with a Toys for Tots representative, please call (678) 699-1854.
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