{"id":455018,"date":"2025-12-18T06:44:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/455018\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T06:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T06:44:27","slug":"mothers-in-charge-hosts-toy-giveaway-holiday-party-for-philadelphia-kids-affected-by-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/455018\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers In Charge hosts toy giveaway, holiday party for Philadelphia kids affected by gun violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Families impacted by gun violence gathered at the School District of Philadelphia&#8217;s headquarters Wednesday for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/spreading-the-love-mothers-in-charge-joy-of-sharing\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mothers In Charge<\/a> toy giveaway, a night of holiday cheer complete with music, presents and a special visit from Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dorothy Johnson-Speight, the national director of Mothers in Charge, hosted the night focused on lending a helping hand to those who have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/spreading-the-love-mothers-in-charge-joy-of-sharing\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost loved ones to gun violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I lost my mom when I was very young, so I know the pain of that, especially at a time when everyone is happy, but maybe you&#8217;re not happy because you had a death in your family,&#8221; Johnson-Speight said.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third annual Mother&#8217;s in Charge Toy Giveaway, and this year more than 200 children received a special gift just in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Erica Reason brought her son Malik.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We seen this at Target a month or so ago, and I didn&#8217;t have enough funds for it, so I told him no, and then we seen it here, so like that&#8217;s just a blessing in itself,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Shannon McCance attended the event with her 5-year-old daughter, Willow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there is anyone in the city that doesn&#8217;t know gun violence,&#8221; McCance said. &#8220;I&#8217;m just happy there are still good people out there. There&#8217;s a lot of good people out there, and it&#8217;s from all walks of life, it&#8217;s just nice to see.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Tis the season for giving \u2014 one smile at a time.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Philadelphia is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/joy-of-sharing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\">proud partner of the toy drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Families impacted by gun violence gathered at the School District of Philadelphia&#8217;s headquarters Wednesday for the Mothers In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":455019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,40808,208497,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-455018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-holiday-season","10":"tag-joy-of-sharing","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115739221476764507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}