This November, KOR Properties will once again be working with Helen’s Hope Chest to collect Christmas stockings filled with gifts for 2,000 local youth in foster care, and we need your help to meet our goal.
Each year, Helen’s Hope Chest hosts an annual holiday toy drive, called JaKelle’s Christmas Box, which provides more than 2,000 children a bundle of age-appropriate gifts, stuffed animals, books, and more. Throughout the week-long distribution event in December, foster caregivers shop through a free pop-up toy store — lovingly described as the North Pole of the Desert — to handpick items they know the children in their care will love.
For the past six years, KOR Properties has been supporting JaKelle’s Christmas Box through its own Stocking Drive by recruiting friends, neighbors, clients, churches, and businesses to contribute Christmas stockings filled with small toys, art supplies, candy, and stuffed animals.
“When we founded KOR Properties, we wanted to create a project that would support the children in our community. We were grateful to partner with Helen’s Hope Chest, and it has been tremendous to watch our Stocking Drive grow,” said Natascha Ovando-Karadsheh, owner and associate broker of KOR Properties. “It is a great project to do with friends, neighbors, coworkers, and family of all ages and abilities, and everyone enjoys making the stockings as much as the children enjoy receiving them!”
Those who wish to participate before the deadline of Dec. 2 can sign up to contribute stockings by visiting korproperties.com/stocking-drive. The website has a sign-up link, gift guidelines, and drop-off instructions. For those who wish to contribute financially, either in addition to or in lieu of stockings, visit helenshopechest. org/jakelle. Helen’s Hope Chest is also a Qualifying Foster Charitable Organization (QFCO) for the Arizona Foster Care Tax Credit when you use QFCO ‘10013.’ Please visit helenshopechest.org for more information.
On behalf of all the agents of KOR Properties, we appreciate your continued support of the Stocking Drive, Helen’s Hope Chest, and our community. Thank you and we wish you and your families a very Happy Thanksgiving!
John Karadsheh and Natascha Ovando-Karadsheh are co-owners of KOR Properties, a boutique real estate brokerage serving the Valley of the Sun, and the creators and founding sponsors of Mesa Food Truck Fridays. John has been a Multi-Million Dollar producing agent for over 19 years and is an Accredited Buyers Representative (ABR) and Certified Residential Specialist (CRS), a member of the Arizona Regional MLS Rules & Policies Committee & Appeals Committee, and the West and Southeast Realtors of the Valley Professional Standards Committee.
Natascha is an Associate Broker, a Multi-Million Dollar Producer, Founder of Mesa Food Truck Fridays, and Member and Past-Chair of the City of Mesa Economic Development Advisory Board.
You can reach John at (602) 615-0843 and Natascha at (602) 909-4995, or visit their website: KORProperties.com