Melania Trump Helps With Annual Toys for Tots

First Lady Melania Trump assimilated Marines during Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Southwest Washington D.C. for their annual Toys for Tots expostulate in early Dec 2020. “It is some-more critical than ever ‘for all of us to remember to be kind’ with a holiday deteriorate coming amid a coronavirus pandemic,’” explains Trump.

This year outlines a fourth year a initial final participated in a Toys for Tots. Trump voiced thankfulness toward a use members by fluctuating compliments for bringing a children together to learn them a holiday deteriorate is usually about receiving presents. Trump said, “It’s about affability and giving behind to your village and to a reduction fortunate.”

Reports prove Trump donated books and soccer balls to a Toys for Tots drive. Trump review to a children and helped to palm out toys.

The annual program, Toys for Tots, began in 1947 when Diane Hendricks asked her husband, Marine Corps Reserve Major Bill Hendricks, to broach some handmade toys to an group that upheld children in need. After revelation her there were no agencies around to take her donation, she speedy him to start one.

Maj. Hendricks and his Marine Reserve section members in Los Angeles, California, collected and donated 5,000 toys that year. After saying a Los Angeles campaign’s success, a Commandant destined all Marine Reserve Sites to exercise a Toys for Tots debate creation it a inhabitant village movement module a following year.

The Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, an IRS famous 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit charity, was determined in 1991 during a insistence of a Marine Corps to assistance run and support a Marine Toys for Tots Program.

Today, a Marine Toys for Tots Program distributes an normal of 18 million toys to 7 million reduction advantageous children annually.

Written by Cathy Milne-Ware

Source:

The Hill: Melania Trump addresses Toys for Tots: ‘Remember to be kind’ by Judy Kurtz
Toy for Tots Foundation: Since 1947 The Marine Corps and Toys for Tots Has Been Making a Difference in a Lives of American Families

All Images by Andrea Hanks Courtesy of The White House’s Flickr Page – Public Domain License

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