Brightly colored gift bags filled the floor beneath a Christmas tree sitting inside the front door of Kozloff Stoudt Attorneys\u2019 offices in Wyomissing on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
Inside were stuffed animals, toy cars, games and clothing \u2014 all sorts of fun treats sure to make a kid\u2019s Christmas merry. And that\u2019s something the tykes who will get a chance to open those presents desperately need.<\/p>\n
The gifts were donated on Friday to Safe Berks, a local nonprofit that serves victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault. They will be handed out to kids in the organization\u2019s emergency shelter and rapid rehousing program.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe think that they are a very good cause, we appreciate what they do for our community,\u201d said Dan Becker, managing director of Kozloff Stoudt. \u201cAnd we want to support their mission.\u201d<\/p>\n
Becker said the law firm selects a local organization each holiday season to support, focusing on ones they can provide presents to kids. Employees this year provided gifts through an Angel Tree, selecting a name and picking out items for a particular child.<\/p>\n
Gifts were purchased for more than two dozen kids.<\/p>\n
Becker said being able to give back to the community is something employees cherish.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the true holiday spirit,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it shows the firm\u2019s values.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dimitrios Aletras Jr., director of development for Safe Berks, stopped by Kozloff Stoudt to pick up the gifts. He said they will have an immense impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are survivors taking the first steps towards starting over,\u201d he said. \u201cIt helps them kick off that new journey.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aletras expressed gratitude for the kindness of employees at the firm.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is so generous,\u201d he told the small crowd of employees who gathered to help load a white van with the presents. \u201cEveryone is going to be so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brightly colored gift bags filled the floor beneath a Christmas tree sitting inside the front door of Kozloff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-65472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}