When you Make a Purchase, Receive a Free Gift as a Thank You for Helping Us Raise Funds for Toy Drive

We are excited to be collecting more toys for this amazing organization again, during the months of November and December. Not only will we be collecting toys from November 19-December 19 at all three Academie Layfatte campus' but during November 19-December 19 both;

We Are Going To France Designs 

Debbie Barrett-Jones 

and 

Woven Repeat 

will be donating 15% of our proceeds to Operation Breakthrough's Toy Drive. And with each purchase online during our fundraiser, we will add a special free thank you gift. So enjoy the gift of giving while you get something handmade in return.

Operation Breakthrough Birthday Closet Toy Drive Drop Off

Thanks to all those that helped us raise more than 70 new toys for Operation Breakthrough's Birthday Closet. During the month of July we fundraised at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center and online through my daughters' Etsy shop, www.wearegoingtofrance.etsy.com.

We were asked to drop off all the toys after their new addition was complete and last month we were able to drop off the toys and get a new tour of their beautiful addition.

Operation Breakthrough has expanded! We will now be able to enroll more than 700 children. That means they will have a lot more birthdays to celebrate! 

   

For many years, the community has stocked the Birthday Closet at Operation Breakthrough with new toys so that every child, from ages 1 to 14, can receive a present on his or her birthday. This kindness makes a big difference for the children and their families. More than 70% of families at Operation Breakthrough are living on earnings of less than $12,000. Some children might not receive a gift on their special day without help from the Birthday Closet.

    

If you would like to help make the children's birthdays special, please consider donating a new, unwrapped toy or book. Especially popular are board games, Legos and other building sets, arts and craft supplies, cars and trucks, footballs, basketballs, science kits, journals and educational toys for children under age 5. 

    

For more information, contact Jennifer Heinemann at jenniferh@operationbreakhrough.org or 816-365-5059. Thank you!