Last December, a number of employees provided gifts for residents of the Koinonia Foster Home, located in Loomis. The purpose was to provide at-risk youth with gifts to open on Christmas morning. The City has been a host of the Koinonia Angel Card Project for the past few years.
Those recipients recently shared a note of thanks to our staff members. We've included a few shots from that letter.
City employees from many departments participated in the program by taking the gift card requests, purchasing, and then wrapping a gift for the youth. Officers from the Roseville Police Department delivered those gifts in mid-December.
Human Resources staffers who helped facilitate the Koinonia Angel Card Project here at the City offices.
Our Angel Tree held 35 "Angel Card" requests for boys and girls ranging in age from 14-18 years old. Additionally, we had six gift requests for the Crisis Resolution Center (CRC).
Koinonia works in cooperation with county social service agencies who remove children from their homes due to neglect, abandonment, abuse, delinquency, guardian absence, or voluntary placement.
The Crisis Resolution Center handles year-round emergency placement including Christmas Day. This past holiday season, they were expecting to place six children on Christmas Day. Their goal was to fulfill that placement and have gifts waiting for those children.