NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Salthawk Community Support is looking for help from Hutch to give teens with financial need a better Christmas.
"Salthawk Community Support has done Christmas projects kind of since our beginning," said Katie Brown with Salthawk Community Support. "This year we are making it really easy on the community and we are asking for $25 gift cards. We are adopting a handful of students at Hutch High and HMS-8 and we're going to have a gift card tree that they can come and pick some different gift cards off of and we're encouraging the community to support local as they help us with this project. So $25 gift cards to Metropolitan Coffee, Scuttlebutts, things like that, local businesses we always want to support. When you're out shopping, pick up an extra gift card and help us support these kiddos."
This is in addition to the work that Salthawk Community Support does all year long.
"This is our seventh year and we are there for the kids that need us," said Claire Foy with Salthawk Community Support. "There is a closet at Hutchinson High School. We were really proud this summer when one of the very high staff members said that the closet is life-changing. That kind of took our breath away as to how much difference that makes. We are there for providing clothing, shoes, hygiene items, lunch funds, transportation that's all in the closet."
It's there for those kids that may need help, but it isn't visible to everyone yet.
"Our organization is here to kind of bridge that gap," Brown said. "We really look for those kids that are right in the middle you know maybe they're not receiving services from other organizations and we're looking to kind of catch those kids and just support them throughout their journey of education here in Hutchinson because you know these are the kids that are going to be working in our community and giving back and so showing them you know how to care for others and that their community cares about them is really important to us."
You can give online to help through Trinity United Methodist Church.