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Foster Santa
Girl receives Foster Santa bike   Foster Santa Logo
Bringing holiday joy to foster kids - 400 new bikes given in 2009!
 

This past December, EMQ FamiliesFirst celebrated the 34th year of our annual holiday event - Foster Santa.

Contagious excitement filled the rooms at Foster Santa parties held throughout our locations in northern California. Parties were complete with Santa Claus, treats, entertainment, new bicycles and lots of smiling faces!

Funded 100% by private donations and community support, this joyful event proved to be another great success. Foster Santa delivered nearly 400 shiny new bicycles, bike helmets and locks to well deserving foster children and other children in need served by EMQ FamiliesFirst.

One of the parties was covered by CBS 13 CW 31, Sacramento. Click here for the story: Foster Kids Get Special Surprise at Xmas Party.

Parties took place in Alameda, Fresno, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Solano, Stanislaus and Yolo counties.

 

Thanks to Santa's Helpers:

Blue Diamond logo
Dynacraft logo
Sacramento Statiions logos
Union Pacific logo
Wheelmen logo

 

 

We need to help the children and change the system so that these children—our children—can grow up with a brighter future.

– David Pelzer,
Author

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