DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) — In Durham, the community is coming together to spread holiday magic to hundreds of families in need.
The ‘Share Your Holiday’ program, managed by the Triangle Nonprofit & Volunteer Leadership Center, is now in its 45th year. Partnering with Durham Social Services, the program gets gift lists from those in need, and then social workers deliver the gifts as the holidays approach.
Adrienne Clark spends every holiday season helping coordinate the program.
“It’s been my baby and my passion,” she told ABC11. “It means everything. My family keeps saying, ‘What do you want?’ I said, ‘For everyone else to be happy’… it comes once a year, but it’s a big thing for everybody.”
The program aims to support low-income individuals, the unemployed, children, and seniors. Clark added, “COVID hit hard. People are still recovering from that.”
She remembers one year, a mother of four really needed a kitchen table, but felt it was too …