A Sad Situation

2 of our holiday volunteers Mary & Debbie visited a family that is really struggling.Although it was different days they both agreed on one thing,its a very sad situation.The house is sparse with old furniture that is worn.There is no Christmas tree nor gifts.Their refrigerator is almost empty.The children play on a bare wooden floor.The only thing that resembles a holiday is coming is a torn paper that the children wrote MERRY CHRISTMAS on.And the paper is taped on the wall.The children are excited that both of our volunteers bought them some gifts and a small bag of clothes.They asked about a tree.No one knew they did not have one until the volunteers showed up at their house.A small 1 yr old has only a diaper on and seems like a happy baby boy.Unaware of the hardships the family is going threw.The mother is a single 50ish yr old.She has no car,and must walk over a half an hour for groceries when she has food stamps.The last 2 weeks of every month the food gets scarce.The children do get a meal through the school when they are there.DYFS is involved.Trying to help a family where they have gone from bad to worse.But its not enough.We will give them a tree and pray that someone will donate some food or a gift card to us.We would like to put some food in their refrigerator so they can atleast have a nice Christmas dinner.We normally don't get food.Occasionally we get turkeys for Thanksgiving or a ham for Christmas.We are hoping someone will read this and make an exception this year for this family.