GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Students, faculty and staff at Calvin University will be sorting and delivering gifts over the next few days as part of the "Letters to Santa Project".
On Friday afternoon, they'll be sorting through 180 handwritten letters from students at Buchanan and Palmer elementary schools sent to Santa Claus.
As part of the program, Calvin students, staff and faculty buy a gift costing no more than $25 that was wished for by a student. Those gifts will be sorted and then distributed to the elementary schools on Monday.
Student senator Megan Streit launched the program last year at Calvin.
"This is just a really cool way that students can involve themselves in the local Grand Rapids community, even further than the Calvin community," she said.
Streit told WOOD Radio the gifts will be distributed to parents so children can receive them on Christmas morning.
"I think there's a special touch it to, as well, because the students write the letters," Streit said. "So, you're not just picking up a random tag off a tree or something saying that this person was like x, y or z. But these are letters that the students write that they draw pictures on and they thank Santa, or they tell him how good they were this year, things like that."
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