With the holidays right around the corner, a season of giving is now underway. Some students have began to do their part to make the holiday season special for others. Senior Hunter Pfaff is one of those students that is trying to make a difference in the lives of a couple of children this year. Through the Angel Tree project, he is trying to help underprivileged families receive Christmas presents for their kids that they may not be able to afford.

“I am trying to give these kids a Christmas that they wouldn’t be able to have,” senior Hunter Pfaff said. “It reminds ourselves that this holiday time is not about us, but about others. This project has been around for a while and is done all over the world. Many churches in our community have their own Angel Tree. This specific Angel Tree started with my sister her junior year. Last year Molly Lacey ran it, and this year, I’m running it.”

As part of PALS, football, and numerous other activities on campus, this is just another way that Pfaff is participating in his community.

“Yes, it’s my senior project, but I had already planned on doing this before I decided to make it my senior project,” Pfaff said. “This is just something I wanted to do.”

His project allows students and families who are interested in helping out underprivileged families this holiday season to easily donate money and gifts. The kids create wish lists that are given to the Angel Tree project. Many of the children’s wish lists can be seen on the Angel Tree out in the commons, along with their picture.

“Each kid has information on them,” Pfaff said. “The wish list has the kid’s name and age, shirt, shoe and pant size, a need, and a wish on them. Your job as a sponsor of a kid is to use this information to give your kid a Christmas he/she wouldn’t be able to have normally.”

If you are interested in helping out, Hunter just asks that you sign up using sign up genius at this link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c4facaa23a1fb6-redbud. The kids are being sponsored really quickly, so if you want to help out, act fast. Presents are to be turned in to Hunter’s house by Friday December 12, unwrapped. On Sunday December 14 at 2:30, he is hosting a wrapping party at his house as well, to prepare the gifts for the children.

“You don’t realize how blessed you are until you get out of this bubble and see the rest of the world, even if it’s 15 minutes up the highway in McKinney,” Pfaff said. “When I see how happy these kids are with close to nothing, I could only imagine how happy they would be with stuff we take for granted.”