For the past three years, I have independently organized Angel Trees for families across multiple communities. I am not a nonprofit. I don’t have a staff. I don’t have sponsors. I am just one person who saw a need — and refused to look away.

Every year, I personally:

• Create and manage the family sign-up system

• Carefully review each application

• Organize children by age, size, and needs

• Match angels with donors

• Follow up with adopters

• And personally fill in the gaps when kids don’t get chosen

I also donate a portion of my own photography income into this Angel Tree every year to help cover children who are left behind.

Most years we serve 40–70 children.

This year, we received 172 children in need.

That number represents not just gifts — but families who are struggling to keep food on the table, parents choosing between bills and Christmas, and kids quietly hoping someone sees them.

Right now, approximately 120 children still do not have sponsors.

Many of them are teenagers, who are often the last to be adopted and the first to be forgotten.

Teenagers understand when they are struggling. They understand when there is no tree, no gift, and no magic. And that reality is absolutely crushing.

This GoFundMe exists for one simple reason:

To make sure these children do not wake up on Christmas morning feeling forgotten.

Every dollar raised through this fund goes directly toward:

• Purchasing Christmas gifts

• Warm clothing and shoes

• Basic necessities

• Gifts for teens who are harder to place

• Helping children whose angels fall through at the last minute

I am not paid for this work. I do not take a salary, a percentage, or a fee. Every single dollar raised goes straight to the children.

While I understand $11,200 is a ton of money and probably unrealistic - I don’t expect to raise this much. This is just a rough estimate on what it would cost to fund 120 angels (if no more are adopted!) We will cover the Angels we can with the funds we receive by the deadline.

Even small donations make a life-changing difference:

• $10 helps provide a stocking

• $25 helps buy winter clothes

• $50–$75 covers most younger children

• $150–$200 helps cover a teenager completely

Time is running out. Without emergency funding, many of these children will not have Christmas this year.

If you cannot donate, please consider sharing this fundraiser. If you can donate — no amount is too small. It all adds up to something life-changing.

On behalf of 120 children still waiting to be chosen, thank you for seeing them. Thank you for helping us bring Christmas to kids who desperately need hope this season.