Our organization (501c3) is helping families who need assistance this holiday season. ThisAbility was tremendously successful in raising funds and receiving enough toy, clothing and food donations to help more then 700 children over the last two years. 

Our Christmas program also includes a Christmas party  free for the families to attend. We will provide Christmas dinner, an additional toy to each child given by Santa, Professional photos with Santa, crafts, karaoke, a Christmas story, swag bags for the families, raffles, and tons of fun for the children attending.

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”

Families MUST meet the following criteria:

Live in the State of Virginia and be able to pick up gifts on one of the dates specified when dates become available.  (any gifts not picked up at the specified time will be redistributed to another family).  Please note we do not provide transportation.

Have a least one child in their immediate family that has a special needs diagnosis or being evaluated for a special need. Typical siblings will also receive assistance.

All Qualifying children must be between the ages of 0-15 yrs. old.

Secondly, families MUST meet one or more of the following criteria:

Experiencing a financial crisis or hardship, Low Income.

Be receiving Benefits from the State (i.e. Tanf, Snap, Section 8 Housing, Social Security)

Applications are evaluated on an individual basis - You will be asked to provide the following documentation:

Current Picture ID (proof of address if current address not on ID) expired ID will not be accepted.

You will be asked to provide total income for ALL Adults living in  the home and Expenses.  We do not consider Cable bills to be part of living expenses.

In the event we receive clothing donations, please be prepared to bring in clothing sizes.

Link to apply will be up and running Starting Nov. 15th

Normally, gifts are distributed around December 15th-18th, you will be contacted with a pick date(s) when they are available. You will  receive the gifts in a non-see through bag unwrapped.