We have an opportunity this holiday season to help make Christmas brighter for a family in need. You can help by providing Christmas gifts to two families who have recently moved out of a homeless shelter into their own housing and have almost nothing of their own.

Here are the two families that Vox is adopting for this Christmas:

• Parents Nicole and Eddie with a boy (age 5) and girl (age 3)
• Single mom Suzette with a boy (age 10)

For a complete list of requests and to sign up for each family click on their names above. Here are some of the things they are requesting:

• clothes
• housewares (kitchen equipment and dishes)
• toys for the kids
• HEB/Walmart/Target gift cards

You can email Julie Pechacek for more details and to see how you can help. Please give your labeled and wrapped gifts to Julie by Sunday, December 18 so we can insure they reach the family in time for Christmas.

[Photo by Margarida G. @ Flickr]