By Jess Owens – Staff Reporter

Jonathan Law’s Giving Tree is giving back during this year’s holiday season.

The National Honor Society decorates the Giving Tree every year with tags that have a name of a boy or girl along with their age and a gift. Students and staff are to take a tag off the tree and return it with the gift that is listed.

“We work with Bridges and their clinicians who work with these families come up with the lists for us and basically they give us three to five gifts the kids have requested and we fulfill their wishes,” NHS advisor Ms. Turcotte said.

Bridges is a social service organization in Milford which has counselors and work with families who are less fortunate than others. They give a list of kids and what they asked for without disclosing their names .

So far, Jonathan Law has received almost 200 gifts for the kids this year. They began with 53 children that they wanted to give at least three to five of the gifts they asked for.

“Our goal is to fill the list,” Turcotte said. “To make sure that all these kids wake up to something on christmas morning.”

Members of NHS are working very hard to make Christmas for these children one that they’ll never forget.

“It’s great; we got a lot of people to donate gifts and we are really really excited to be doing this” NHS officer Kruttika Gopal said.

One Law student who bought a gift was very happy to be giving back.

“I got a pair of sneakers for a boy that’s three years old,” sophomore Jefri Caballero said. “Once I was in need of a gift and I felt like it was necessary to help someone else as a act of kindness.”

NHS hopes that all kids receive what they asked for and that they have a happy holiday.

“I hope that we just bring happiness to the kids who deserve it because they don’t have a lot of money or some people just asked for diapers or winter clothes,” NHS officer Ming-May Hu. ”I hope it just brings them comfort and happiness for the holidays.”

NHS has been doing the Giving Tree for years and they have many exciting things coming after break.