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HAINES CITY Micala Santiago, 7, and her brother Noah, 4, climbed into their mother’s car after school Wednesday, moments after volunteers from the Polk County Public Schools’ IT department piled a Christmas dinner, toys, and clothes into the car’s trunk in time for a Feliz Navidad at the Santiago home next week.
The students at Eastside Elementary School in Haines City are benefitting from an annual program the district s IT department hosts each year the Kiddie Christmas Holiday Giveaway. Department employees raise between $4,000 and $7,000 each year in order to buy toys, books, a board game, clothes and bicycles for each student in one school s pre-kindergarten class.