Celebrating charity at Christmas
TODAY’S newspaper, full of the festive season, contains many reasons to be of good cheer but also highlights some cause for concern within our community.
In our pages today we highlight fundraising for nurses to deliver gifts to the elderly and vulnerable in our community. A rugby charity raises funds through an auction of kindly-donated items which is donated to the Guernsey Welfare Service, another charity which we already learned this week is busier than ever.
A company raises donates money and staff time to prepare festive hampers for clients of the domestic abuse charity Safer, reminding us that Christmas is not necessarily a happy time for all.
And families affected directly by suicide remind us of the pressures that society brings on us and sometimes we bring on ourselves during this season.
In all it’s a broad reminder that while we want to enjoy Christmas, not every islander may do so. The great work that charities such as the Welfare Service, Safer and Guernsey Mind almost hides the problems in our society that they seek to resolve.
The nurses delivering presents, some on Christmas Day itself, as part of the Gifts for the Elderly and Vulnerable project, will know full well that plenty of people in our community might feel they are missing out.
Please do what you can to help someone else less fortunate this Christmas.