The following is a brazen, unabashed, no-regrets, shameless and sincere call to your humanity, generosity, magnanimity, community spirit and guilt.
Kids in Northern New Mexico, many mired in the kind of grinding and gut-wrenching poverty most of us canât imagine, are within 12 days of having no Christmas at all. No presents.
Jyl DeHaven and her co-workers canât stand the thought. So theyâre asking for your help.
âThe groups that serve those kiddos, the groups weâre trying to help, we are their Christmas,â says DeHaven, a commercial real estate broker who lives in Santa Fe.
Yup, itâs a pandemic story. But read on. This one could get better.