A toy drive in the US is helping incarcerated mums give their kids holiday gifts

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  • Family

  • Thursday, 21 Dec 2023

A toy drive in the US is helping parents and their children connect meaningfully. — Dreamstime/TNS

IT STARTED with a hopeful phone call.

The holidays were approaching and Sharon Fitzer, family coordinator at Logan Correctional Center, a designated women’s prison in central Illinois, was hearing from mums worried their children wouldn’t have any gifts to open.

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