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| About The Red Kettle
Christmas Campaign |
The Red Kettle Christmas
Campaign enables the Army
to provide food, toys and
clothing to over 6 million
people during the Christmas
season and helps more than
34 million Americans
recovering from all kinds of
personal disasters
nationwide.
The Red Kettle campaign,
first started in San Francisco
in 1891, has traditionally
been the Salvation Army's
most prominent fund-raiser.
In 2004, the campaign raised
over $100 million in
communities nationwide,
with the nickels, dimes,
quarters and dollars all
remaining in the towns
where the money was
deposited into the kettles.
The funds raised help
support many of the 37
million people in poverty
who turn to the Army for
food and toys at Christmas,
utility and homeless
assistance, senior and child
care, drug abuse treatment
and many other social
service needs. |
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