Pacific Palisades Friends and Newcomers Club invite people to sponsor a foster child with gifts this holiday season.
Pacific Palisades Friends and Newcomers Club, a social organization, is working to ensure that every camper with Happy Trails receives a wrapped gift delivered right to their cabin this holiday season.
Happy Trails for Kids was started by Palisadian Pepper Edmiston in 1982 as Camp Good Times so that her son David could attend a sleep-away camp.
David, who was stricken with childhood leukemia when he was two years old, survived cancer but his treatments left him with intellectual disabilities and epileptic.
David’s impairments had become so pronounced by 1993, that his family founded a new program Happy Trails for Kids click here. For 13 years, Happy Trails hosted families who were raising seriously ill or incapacitated boys and girls – either their youngsters by birth or through foster care. Happy Trails celebrated children with challenges and the families who loved them.
Here are some options for helping Happy Trail Kids:
Sponsor a Child for the Holidays
- Be matched with a camper and receive their wish list
- Shop for gifts totaling $50–$75
- Wrap, tag, and deliver to our office (or arrange pick-up) by December 10
- Click Here to SPONSOR A CAMPER
Shop Our Amazon Wish List
Choose gifts directly from our Amazon Holiday Wish List and have them shipped straight to us — and don’t forget to share the link with friends and family.
Make a Monetary Donation
Your gift will go directly towards Winter Camp, holiday programming, and unfilled camper wish lists.
- DONATE HERE
- Or mail a check to Happy Trails for Kids – 2525 Ocean Park Blvd. #104, Santa Monica, CA 90705, in the subject line note Holiday Gift Drive. (Happy Trails cannot accept used items, such as books, toys, or clothing, toys resembling realistic weapons and toys with candy, food, or chemicals contained in labs, crystal projects.)
Pacific Palisades Newcomers Club:
To learn more about Pacific Palisades Friends and Newcomers and to view the long list of activities available, which include: bridge, hiking, exploring LA, book discussions and Mah Jong click here. Membership dues are $25 a year.