The McGovern Family’s Annual Toy Drive Brings Joy to Many

For the past seven years, the McGovern family’s Christmas tradition is to conduct a massive toy drive to benefit the children of Doorways client families. The tradition started when daughter Kaylen was a seventh-grade student at Hurley Middle School and decided to organize that first toy drive for Christmas. She enlisted the help of sisters Kerrin and Marley to collect over one hundred items for needy children in Seekonk. In the years that followed, the toy drive has grown to include the entire McGovern clan, their extended family, their neighbors and friends, and the Seekonk High School community. Jennifer McGovern says the effort has added richness to the family’s celebration of Christmas.

This year, the toy drive collected hundreds of toys which were laid out in an immense Toyland display, and parents and grandparents from Doorways were invited to select gifts for their youngsters. The toys were destined to become the Christmas morning delights of 113 local children, more than half of whom were under the age of 12. But the toy drive also served to delight those adults who were able to select gifts for their little ones. The toys, then, are a double gift – they bring smiles to the face of parent and child alike.

The McGovern family would like to thank everyone who contributed to the toy drive. And the community at Doorways, volunteers and clients alike, would like to thank all of our supporters and benefactors in the Town of Seekonk. May God bless us all as we close out the Christmas season and look forward in hope to the New Year.