As you may know, Presents for Paws is an angel tree project that is put on by volunteers of different animal welfare groups in the St. Louis community. It benefits various groups on both the Illinois and Missouri sides of the Metro. Although it's a donation drive, it also seeks to bring awareness to animal welfare and rescue, along with promoting volunteering, fostering, adopting, along with simply getting involved in the community! (Oh, and still donating some items on our wish list too!)
We put up trees in local stores, gyms, coffee shops, etc. The trees are decorated with 3x3 cardstock "ornaments" that have photos of adoptable dogs and cats from local shelters. On the back of the ornaments are wish lists of items that each rescue needs. To participate, people simply donate items on the wish list. People can also contact any of the groups if they're interesting in fostering, adopting, volunteering, etc.
This project is a lot of fun---to host, to volunteer with, to donate to, and to watch the donations come in. Every aspect is so rewarding because everyone wins. From the animals and shelters who receive the donations to the young child who learns about kindness through picking out a donation. We couldn't do Presents for Paws without the community and we are lucky to have such a great one.
Here's to our 9th year St. Louis! We know it will be a good one.
The P4P Team
Love this project! Where do we drop off the donations from the wish list?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your support and for reaching out! You can find a list of locations here: https://presentsforpaws.blogspot.com/2019/12/drumroll-pleaseheres-list-of-where-you.html.
DeleteThank you for your donations!