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"Danger Season" is here in the Cortland/Syracuse area. As temperatures drop, pajama program provides new pajamas and new books to children in need.
“Danger Season” starts October 1st and continues through March 31st. We start now to ensure as many children as possible will be warm at bedtime as the temperatures drop. This is the most important time for the Pajama Program whose purpose is giving new pajamas and new books to children in need all year long. Local volunteers across America are called to action.
“Danger Season” is the most difficult time for the children served by Pajama Program. Temperatures drop at night and the children are cold, afraid and lonely. They feel like they don't belong anywhere or to anyone. We need to keep them warm and feeling loved. They have been taken away from homes and schools and so many of them are left without a family, without friends and without hope.
Connie Martin, the local Chapter President of the Pajama Program welcomes any donations that the community can make. “We are striving to make sure that each child feels safe and warm at night,” Martin said. Please consider donating to this great cause. You can contact Mrs. Martin at [email protected] for more information.
Pajama Program started in the Fall of 2000 when founder Genevieve Piturro began giving children in shelters and group homes pajamas and books. Since 2001 the organization has provided more 4 MILLION new pajamas and new books to children in need nationwide.
“When I first volunteered as a reader with children who didn’t have pajamas, a safe home with their own bed and a mom or dad to tuck them in, my heart broke. I had to tell everyone I knew to give me new pajamas and books for these children for bedtime. Thank goodness people heard me,” said Pajama Program founder Genevieve Piturro.
Local Pajama Program Chapter Presidents locate various “Receiving Organizations” in their communities where children in need are living such as shelters and group homes. Together with local volunteers they organize pajama drives and events to provide those children with new pajamas and new books.
For more information: visit www.pajamaprogram.org.
