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5-year-old collects gift bags for homeless children
As part of a home school project, Liliana Tripp of Oxford is helping brighten the lives of needy kids. Author: Vivien Leigh (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 3:09 PM CST February 12, 2021 Updated: 10:30 AM CST February 13, 2021
OXFORD, Maine There are dozens of happy children living in homeless shelters in rural Western Maine thanks to the generosity of a 5-year-old girl from Oxford.
As part of a homeschool project about compassion, the first-grader collected dozens of items donated from the community, including toothpaste, toys, snacks, and games for gift bags for homeless children.
Friday, Liliana and her parents delivered 60 gift bags to the Rumford Group Homes, which runs family shelters in Rumford and Norway. The bags are being distributed as welcome gifts for children in the nonprofit s shelters in Rumford and Norway and being housed in hotels in the Lewiston-Auburn ar