We are choosing not to ask for gifts but rather to contribute to a San Diego local organization that provides humanitarian aid to people in need in the desert areas outside of San Diego. Feel free to contribute here and we will donate the total amount to Border Angels, or donate directly here: https://www.borderangels.org/donate.htmlThis organization leaves water and emergency supplies along migrant routes to lessen the number of people dying in our beloved desert, and organizes with other local groups to retrieve the remains of those who are not so lucky and lose their lives in the desert.

www.sandiegofoodbank.org The Food 4 Kids Backpack Program, established in 2006, provides weekend food packages to chronically hungry elementary school students from low-income households who are at risk of hunger over the weekend when free school meals are unavailable.Every Friday afternoon students on the program are called out of class, often to the school nurse’s office, and discretely given a bag of food which is tucked into their backpacks. Each bag contains enough food to see the students through the weekend, and the discreet distributions remove the stigma that might be attached to the program.