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About the Eastern Navajo Child Drive
The purpose of this project is to provide Christmas food baskets and a few simple gifts for the neediest children and their families. The families and children that Santa would not otherwise be able to visit. Our catchment area is the eastern portion of the Navajo Nation, an area of New Mexico that lies in the “four corners” region; New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado. The Eastern Navajo Child Drive is administered by the Board of Directors HistoryIn 1993 Kathy Spitz, then Director of Special Education, and Louise Thompson, Care Coordinator, Eastern Navajo Agency, Crownpoint, New Mexico, and the Special Education Team, determined to make the Christmas holidays a little brighter for a few families with whom they worked. Our first criteria was that each family would include a child with special needs that we provided services for within Eastern Navajo Agency. Since that first Christmas, when 25 special needs children were visited by Santa’s elves, the Navajo Child Drive has experienced tremendous growth. During our 2006 Child Drive, we had the privilege of delivering to 250 families a holiday basket of food along with all the special gifts, wrapped, bowed, and tagged for 618 of our children. In 2006 we were able to raise $13,636 as well as receiving boxes of toys, clothing, and used blankets. We ended this season with $4,242.27 in our account! This means we will have emergency funds for food and fuel as well as saving hundreds at sales.
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Eastern Navajo Child Drive -
HC 62 Box 3749 -
Thoreau, NM 87323
Christmas
2007 will mark the 14th year of the Navajo Child Drive.
