“I am writing this letter to ask for help with presents for 2 of my children,” a Boston mother wrote to Globe Santa. “I am currently fighting cancer and getting chemo.”
The task of delivering the gifts to children is the final step in a year-long, breathless feat of toy-shopping, donation-raising, letter-reading, logistics-calculating, database-making, label-printing, toy-sorting, box-packing, and pallet-piling
Letters to Globe Santa tell us that the ordeal of the war in Ukraine is anything but “done” for Ukrainian families in Massachusetts, though they are miles away from the Black Sea.