The most anticipated Christmas card campaign starts now! The creative caring community Siskot ja Simot and its partners are organizing the twelfth Christmas Mail for the Elderly campaign from November 4.11 to December 6.12.2024, 137. Last year, a whopping XNUMX municipalities participated in the Christmas card collection. The campaign collects Christmas cards for elderly customers of home care and housing services.
This is the fifth time that cards are being collected in Kankaanpää. After the campaign period, the collected cards will be delivered to the customers of the housing service units and home care in the Satakunta welfare area of North Satakunta to cheer up their Christmas anticipation. Last year, a record 761 cards were distributed in Kankaanpää.
– A small Christmas card can bring great joy and heart-warming feelings of caring to a lonely elderly person for a long time, Executive Director of the Sisters and Sisters Association Hanna Simola times.
The campaign's partners are the Association of Local and Regional Authorities, the Association of Civic Colleges and the Civic Arena. The campaign is patronized by the President of the Republic, Alexander Stubb.
Participating in the campaign is easy and fun
You can participate in the campaign by making a Christmas card and delivering it to the collection point between November 4.11 and December 6.12. Write Merry Christmas wishes on the card. Enter "To you" for the recipient and your own name and "Sisters and Sis" for the sender. Drop the card as it is in the nearest collection box. You don't seal the card in an envelope.
In Kankaanpää, the main library and Honkajoki library are the collection points. Cards can be left through the return hatches and also inside the libraries during opening hours. Cards can be sent by post to: Kankaanpää City / Communications, PO Box 36, 38701 Kankaanpää. Mark the envelope with “Christmas mail for the elderly”.
Additional information:
Campaign website: www.siskotjasimot.fi/joulupostia
You can follow the campaign on social media: #kosketakortilla #joulupostia
City of Kankaanpää, Marketing and Communications Manager Leena Kuusimäki
tel. 050 577 5200, [email protected]
Sisters and Sisters Association, campaign coordinator Laura Niska, tel. 041 311 6903,
[email protected]
Sisters and Sisters Association, Communications Coordinator Petra Vesalainen, tel. 044 240 2045,
[email protected]