Toys for Tots needs Donations

The need is greater than ever before for Toys for Tots and the community is being asked to help give needy children in the area something to open this Christmas.  Randy Hughes, Toys for Tots Coordinator for Macon, Jackson, Swain, Haywood, and Rabun counties tells how you can help.  “We picked up most of our collection boxes yesterday hoping we would have enough toys and everything but we still have about 400 kids left to help that we don’t have toys for right now.  So, I will be out at the Clayton Walmart today collecting until about 4:30pm trying to get enough toys in to make sure that we have toys or monetary donations so we can buy the toys.  We have about a 25% reduction in our collection sites this year and an almost 30% increase in the number of kids needing toys this year.  So, we just need some help from the public.”  Toys for Tots is looking for new, unwrapped toys for kids under 18 years of age.  You can donate online to www.toysfortots.org and enter the county in which you would like to help.