The Brief
- We Got This hosted a holiday gift shop for Milwaukee kids on Saturday.
- MaCanon Brown Homeless Sanctuary held its annual toy distribution.
- The annual Breakfast with Santa was held at the MLK Community Center.
MILWAUKEE – A handful of Milwaukee events on Saturday kept kids in mind ahead of the holidays.
We Got This Holiday Gift Shop
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We Got This hosted a holiday gift shop in Milwaukee on Saturday. There, kids could pick out gifts for siblings or parents – for free. Organizers said it gave kids, many for the first time, the chance to experience the joy of giving during the holidays.
“Through our donor base, we’ve had hundreds of gifts donated for the community,” said Alex Buzan. “It really just came out of one of the kids saying that they were having a hard time getting a gift for their mom or their cousin or something like that, and so we thought, ‘Well, if one is in that situation, then there’s probably a couple others that are.'”
The event at 9th and Ring ran from noon to 2 p.m. We Got This employs roughly 150 kids per week during the summer.
MacCanon Brown toy distribution
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