{"id":471727,"date":"2025-12-26T00:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T00:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471727\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T00:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T00:32:17","slug":"nonprofit-brightens-christmas-with-toys-food-and-blankets-for-west-philadelphia-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471727\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit brightens Christmas with toys, food and blankets for West Philadelphia families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spirit of giving was on full display Thursday in West Philadelphia, where a local nonprofit helped make Christmas special for families in need.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers with the We Care Community and Literacy Center spent their Christmas spreading holiday cheer and passing out food, blankets and toys to families.<\/p>\n<p>For mother of three Jada Scott, the heart-felt gesture brought a much-needed smile. She said the act of kindness may have been the best gift of all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It means a lot with financial problems and everything going on in society, and people giving back is an honor to the community,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We really appreciate this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The giveaway was part of the non profit&#8217;s 27th annual Give Love on Christmas Day event.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Rochelle Singleton lives in this West Philadelphia community and brought the event there to help make the holiday special for her neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so overjoyed,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It makes my heart smile to be able to give back and show love to those in need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The spirit of giving was on full display Thursday in West Philadelphia, where a local nonprofit helped make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":471728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,40808,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,32611],"class_list":{"0":"post-471727","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-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa","19":"tag-west-philadelphia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115783057065732546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471727","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=471727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}