All The Way from Phoenix, Arizona

Rosa Maria Cordova’s second grade class at Arrowhead Elementary School wanted to do something special for the holidays. Thanks to the miracle of the internet, they found St. Anthony’s. They decided to bring socks to school for our guests. The interesting thing is, Arrowhead Elementary School is in Phoenix, Arizona. The class collected and shipped socks for people in need a good 600 miles away. We sent them a video so they could see some of the people who come to St. Anthony’s for help and learn more about how people get poor.

We stashed the box away to save the socks for Christmas. All of them went into Christmas bags and were given out to our guests on Christmas day. Each and every person who ate at St. Anthony’s on Christmas, about 2500 people, got a big red bag with a hand knitted scarf, a donated chocolate bar, and a pair of socks. About 50 of those bags had socks from Arizona. Thank you, Mrs. Cordova’s class.