2025 Christmas for Kids
My Favorite Charity Events (MFCE) and our Santa’s Helpers delivering Christmas gifts for the 6th year!
The MFCE Santa’s Express delivered all the Christmas packages to Cooke Elementary. Look at all those wonderful packages! What an incredible year it was, 18 families with a total of 25 kids! Christmas morning will be one of pure delight for our kids as they open the many gifts that you provided – Santa Claus came to town and oh boy did he deliver gifts. We can’t thank each of you enough for your kindness and charitable heart, for without you, Christmas would not have been the same.
We are going to take a break, but we have some ideas on expanding the Christmas for Kids Program next year which will be our 7th anniversary. Look for some ideas we come up with on expanding to possibly another school, to foster children, or homeless living in hotels. If you have ideas we would love to hear from you.
We will sign off for now, but we end by saying – we hold you all our Santa’s Helpers dearly in our hearts and wish all the Merriest of Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.
Thank you Virginia Beach Rotary Club!
My Favorite Charity Events (MFCE) would like to thank the Virginia Beach Rotary Club for partnering with us as we support underserved families with children who attend Cooke Elementary School through our Christmas for Kids Program.
Working on our sixth year of serving children in our local community, we want to thank the Rotary Club and one of our MFCE’s Santa’s Helpers, Jessica Lin, who nominated us for this donation.
MFCE’s Christmas for Kids program is a grassroots program supported by our Santa’s Helper’s and local community in providing Christmas gifts for our kids.
We appreciate our Santa’s Helpers, and we are constantly looking for new donors as we continue to raise funds for the Christmas for Kids program for 2025.
MFCE is looking forward to helping families with students at Cooke Elementary enjoy a merry Christmas season by providing these students with the opportunity to experience a wonderful holiday season.
Thank you, Virginia Beach Rotary Club , for supporting MFCE and the community kids in this worthwhile effort.
Dear Ms. Valli,
On behalf of the Virginia Beach Rotary Club, it is my great pleasure to congratulate you on being selected as a 2025 District Grant Award Winner.
This year, your organization has been awarded $1,000 in support of your work. These District Grants are designed to fund small-scale, short-term activities that address needs in our community, with a special emphasis on Rotary’s areas of focus such as health, education, and poverty reduction.
Your application stood out because of the meaningful impact your efforts are making right here in Virginia Beach. We are grateful for the dedication, creativity, and service you bring to improving lives in our community, and we are proud to partner with you through this grant.
Congratulations again, and thank you for the important work you are doing.
With appreciation,
Jonathan Wackerly
Virginia Beach Rotary Club
Mr. Turner has worked as an educator for over a decade, first as a full-time Kaplan tutor before shifting into the public-school setting. Mr. Turner originally provided New York City public schools with SAT and ACT tutoring programs on behalf of Kaplan test prep. Since moving to Virginia Beach with his wife and daughter in 2015, Mr. Turner has taught, tutored, and coached students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. He has provided Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) therapy to students with autism ranging in ages from 3-16. As a special education teacher with Norfolk Public Schools, he taught a group of 3rd and 4th grade students with Emotional Disabilities. Through the coordinated support of families, co-teachers, and supportive administration, his team of students (dubbed the “SuperDolphins”) achieved a collective SOL pass rate of over 80 percent. Mr. Turner currently works as a Special Education teacher at Green Run High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and believes strongly that relationship-building and play-based learning are the foundations of academic recovery and long-term success.