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OneGrassRoot

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Sun Apr 7, 2013, 03:31 PM Apr 2013

Crosspost from GD: Family throws birthday parties for thousands of homeless kids

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022630991





Around their son’s third birthday, it dawned on Amy and John Cervantes that the joy, love and recognition their little boy, Alex, received on his big day — surrounded by new toys, family and friends — was absent from many children’s lives.

So in 2005 the Cervantes family, who had been looking for a service project for their growing brood, began throwing birthday parties for homeless children who otherwise might not get to celebrate the day they were born.

“We wanted to get our kids involved and it can be hard to find suitable places for children,” Amy Cervantes told TODAY.com. “For young children, a lot of things are very abstract. Something like a birthday every child understands: What if their day came and no one came to celebrate with them?”


http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2013/04/04/17588383-family-throws-birthday-parties-for-thousands-of-homeless-kids?lite
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