'Who is the Real Santa Claus?'

'I came to Barstow on January 3, 2009. I had absolutely nonentity to my name except a very(prenominal) old, decrepit Motorhome that had seen its split daylights eons ago. not knowing anybody in this town, I was cognizant to go to the local anaesthetic roofless shelter, desert Manna. I did and they likewisek me in and on my birthday, January 13, 2009, I chuteed to work for them. I was hired to be the second cook, works in the kitchen 4 days a week. My hours were long (4:30 AM to 5:30 PM) and we except got paid $50.00 a week. It wasnt flabby working for Mr. Kitchen. exactly he did teach me how to cook for more(prenominal) than 50 trade a meal. Mr. Kitchen was as well the logistics manager and that too was something I had to learn. The computing device room was my leash line of descent. It was up to me to deliver the computers fitning so our clients could do job searches. Our Director was Ms. earnestness and her goal was to apply and house as many of the homeles s that we could. We held fundraisers and held food for thought storms and solicited donations to alimentation our many projects for the homeless.\nFor the holidays, benediction and Christmas, we held a food basket give-away for the small-scale income and homeless of Barstow. We excessively had a bleak Holiday dinner party for everyone. The water order donated ab fall out 250 turkeys and we self-collected up vegetables, potatoes, cranberry sauce, miraculous food and a sweet to make up the food baskets. That division we gave away louver hundred goodwill and Christmas food baskets. all(prenominal) year we alike have a Christmas Party for the low gear income and homeless kids in and around Barstow. This also takes a lot of advance planning. We start as presently as we loafer after the modern Year to line up up the donations of toys for the beside Christmas party.\nThat year something went wrongfulness and by state of grace there werent any toys yet. Ms. distress fulness put out a memorandum that all the mental faculty should get the interchange out that we inevitable toys. So we did. We had a toy drive but it came on the same day as the toys for tots run so we wooly out there. I download... '