PEORIA, Ill. – The holidays are over, but the Salvation Army in Peoria still needs support.
“People may say ‘Well the kettles and the bells are put away,’ the need’s still there. We have about $400,000 yet to raise,” Major Heath Sells told WMBD’s “Greg and Dan Show” on Thursday.
Their Tree of Lights campaign set out a goal to raise $2,000,000 over the holiday season, but is still short of that amount with three weeks to go.
One of the programs that is supported by funds from the campaign is “Pathway to Hope,” which Sells said helps families with breaking out of generational poverty.
Sells added that funds also help people who have fallen on hard financial times, which provided about $500,000 for utility and rental assistance last year.
“This is to say “We want to chart with you an opportunity for you to gain and take inventory of what you have, so that we can change it, so the next generation doesn’t face that same hopelessness that they grew up with,” Sells said.
Sells said 83 cents of each dollar raised goes towards services that they provide.
He said people can still contribute to the campaign by going to their website, SAPeoria.org, or by mail at 400 NE Adams St.
