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Holiday toy drives underway for victims of Helene in North Carolina
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12/17/2024
With the holidays a week away, the push to donate new toys, goods and services is at an all-time high in western North Carolina as Helene victims still struggle to recover.
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One of the things that really stuck out to us as we visited this part of
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Western North Carolina is the tremendous support from people around
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surrounding states and around the country. We ran into a couple that came
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in from Charleston South Carolina just to deliver toys in time for Christmas.
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They are just one of hundreds of volunteers that have taken time off,
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have used their own vacation time to come to this area of North Carolina to
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try and give back to the community that they love so much. We have been
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collecting items for the needy here and have collected toys and bought toys for
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the kids here for Christmas. If you look around and there's not a lot of good
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here, try to make somebody happy. At least bring happiness to a family or an area.
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Whatever we can do to help. Hearing it and seeing it are two entirely different
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things. It's devastating. It makes us know this is why we need to be
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here and maybe we need to come back. So much of this area of course in great
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need and there is of course a large concerted effort to give kids in this
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community a good holiday season. So the toy drives are ongoing. There's also food
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drives and donation drives. They really are trying to stress though that folks
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donate new unused items and not so much gently used clothing. They have way too
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much of that they said. What they're really looking is for those new items
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and other types of gifts that they can give to the community as the holiday
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approaches. Reporting from Swannanoa, North Carolina, I'm Leslie Hudson for
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AccuWeather.
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