CIS SANTA SACKS PROJECT

CIS invites you to join in the holiday spirit and become Santa's helper.

We supply the sacks. You supply the stuffing. Every year, thousands upon thousands of children in the Houston area receive nothing during the holiday season. The goal of the Santa Sacks project, which is organized by The Friends of CIS (FOCIS) volunteer guild, is to make sure these children receive at least one gift for the holidays. Each year, CIS fills red and green sacks with fun gifts and necessary wares and gives them to select CIS students at designated school campuses.

Sacks for this year's project will be available beginning October 23, 2006 and need to be returned to CIS by December 1, 2006 so that we can give them out to students before they go on holiday break.

If you have any questions or would like to participate, please contact Jessica Reyes at 713-654-1515, ext. 136.

Sack Suggestions
When filling your sacks, please try not to exceed $25 each.If you want to do more, we’ll be happy to get you additional sacks. You can drop off Santa Sacks at the CIS Central Office:Monday – Thursday 8-4:30pm and Friday 8-4pm2150 W. 18th Street, Suite 100, Houston, Texas 77008. Please use red bags for girls and green bags for boys.

The following is a list of suggested items:

Reading Books

Educational Books

Puzzles

Clothing Items

Socks

T-Shirts

Stuffed Animals

Cartoon Pens and Pencils

Cartoon Notebooks

Coloring Books

Colored Pencils

Crayons

Pencil Erasers

Baseball/Basketball Cards

Hot Wheels

Model Cars

Paint Sets

Balls

Games

Culturally Diverse Dolls

Hair Accessories

Toothbrushes

Play-Doh

Bubbles

Purses

Board Games

Family Games

Trading Cards

- by Jonathan Timms, CIS Development Coordinator