EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A Winter Coat Drive for CPS-involved children and families wrapped up at 11am this Monday morning, November 24th\u00a0at the Texas DFPS office.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the final day of a month-long effort led by a student volunteer group from\u00a0ASEZ STAR Church of God. The students collected more than 200 coats and blankets as part of their Good Neighbor Campaign.<\/p>\n
Students from ASEZ STAR were at DFPS this Monday sorting coats by sizes and organizing blankets for delivery by CPS caseworkers.<\/p>\n
Evarose Antunez was one of many student volunteers at the event today dedicating their time during the holiday season to help those in need.<\/p>\n
“I’m just glad that we can really help our community in a small way like this, helping all the families that are in need of basic necessities,” Antunez said during an interview. <\/p>\n
Donation boxes for this donation campaign were first dropped off at schools and later spread to other locations like hospitals. <\/p>\n
This coat drive was in partnership with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, with the aim to ensure no child in our area goes without a coat this winter. <\/p>\n
We all hear it, right? It takes a village and it really, really is true. It takes a village to make sure that kids stay safe, that they stay warm, that they stay fed,” said DFPS Faith Based and COmmunity Engagement Specialist Victoria Colon at today’s event. <\/p>\n
Donations exceeded expectations and collected 229 coats. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A Winter Coat Drive for CPS-involved children and families wrapped up at 11am…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-64079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}