{"id":66781,"date":"2025-11-27T01:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/66781\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:37:07","slug":"valley-non-profit-looking-for-sponsors-for-teens-in-foster-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/66781\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley non-profit looking for sponsors for teens in foster care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krgv.com\/videos\/valley-non-profit-looking-for-sponsors-for-teens-in-foster-care\/mailto:naomi@krgv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi De Luc\u00eda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many foster children in the Rio Grande Valley will have to spend the holidays without a family. A local non-profit organization said they want to ensure that those children feel some love this Christmas, but they will need help from the public.<\/p>\n<p>Foster Angels of South Texas launched its annual holiday campaign, &#8220;Focus on a Foster Teen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the non-profit director Lucy Ann Wolthoff, teenagers are often the most overlooked age group during Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the campaign, Foster Angels of South Texas is trying to fulfill wish lists for 52 Valley foster teens.<\/p>\n<p>Only six of those teens have been adopted, and the non-profit said they need more people to step in and sponsor a child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don&#8217;t expect to get these gifts. It&#8217;s a surprise for them,\u201d Wolthoff said. \u201cSo they really enjoy it and it makes their Christmas even more special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said those wanting to help can either sponsor a teen and shop for their gifts, or make a monetary donation and let the non-profit do the shopping.<\/p>\n<p>Foster Angels of South Texas said they&#8217;re asking for donations before Thursday, Dec. 4, so they can wrap gifts and deliver them to caseworkers by Dec. 10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fosterangelsstx.org\/fft\/rio-grande-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Those wanting to donate can do so online.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the video above for the full story.<\/p>\n<p>News<\/p>\n<p>Many foster children in the Rio Grande Valley will have to spend the holidays without a family. A local non-profit&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.krgv.com\/news\/valley-non-profit-looking-for-sponsors-for-teens-in-foster-care\" class=\"read-more\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 hour ago<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, November 26 2025<\/p>\n<p>Nov 26, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, November 26, 2025 5:57:00 PM CST<\/p>\n<p>November 26, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: Naomi De Luc\u00eda Many foster children in the Rio Grande Valley will have to spend the holidays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-66781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66781","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=66781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}