Over the past few weeks, we have reopened our doors and invited foster families once again to step inside our building. We have been able to ask those questions such as “How else can we help?”

I have met many nonprofit leaders whose organizations provide a few of the services foster families receive from AHH, but have found no organization in the nation that does all that we do for a statewide population of boys and girls.

Giving these kids a safe place to sleep, a personal space to lay down their heads and to dream of their future is the most vital part of our day-to-day services.

The pandemic has wrought its horrors throughout the land. It has put everyone at risk and wreaked havoc on many lives. There is an angel who has devoted every ounce of energy to making lives better for the littlest children who have been victims and deserve better.

Many are looking forward to turning the calendar to 2021. This year has brought us challenges and issues we could never have imagined, and there are many reasons to want to put 2020 in the rearview mirror.

Arizona Helping Hands brings Hope for the Holidays to Children in Foster

We all are well aware of how different 2020 has been – a pandemic, a contentious election, social unrest, the hottest summer on record – all of these have frayed everyone’s nerves. Even at Arizona Helping Hands, despite seeing every day the importance of our work providing basic needs to Arizona’s 14,000+ children in foster care, we’ve faced our share of challenges.

1,823 – that’s the number of children in foster care whose birthdays have been made special already in 2020 by the Birthday Dreams program at Arizona Helping Hands. More than 250 boys and girls each month have received gifts and party packages, thanks to our efforts.