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Secret Santa for Sandy victims

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    Victim starts site to donate Christmas toys

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Some of the most incredible pictures of the year properties and possessions along the East Coast destroyed by hurricane sandy and behind each one of these stories.

I is another story of selflessness and sacrifice.

Yeah in New Jersey one local woman had no heat for eight days but still made it her mission to ensure that hundreds of young hurricane sandy victims get toys this Christmas kids who lost everything joining us now is Kim -- Co-founder of secret sandy dot org nice to see it can't you -- You were affected by this where you lived as most people were in this region a large swath of individuals you were without power you had some damage and you had to evacuate.

Yes.

I was speculated to north Jersey since I live in Hoboken.

We knew was gonna flag and not nearly as badly as he did.

So -- -- but in the middle of your own travails of having to evacuate and you have damaged your home at all the loss of power.

How did you this -- and wide to try to do something for the victim.

This after coming back I have emailed a friend of mine and -- I feel like I need to be doing something I feel like I need to be helping and she felt same way and.

Headlines and by the end of the weekend the website was up and we noticed -- all these kids -- these families as we look at these images here without a home so certainly Christmas.

Approaching quickly after sandy and parents thinking my gosh we don't have -- home we don't have a Christmas tree.

Our kids how we give them toys this year how wouldn't care for the little ones who've been through so much.

And you started piece this thing together why the kids.

They want some normalcy in their life they have nothing they watched all their toys being thrown out how do you explain to a child -- we can't Kleenex I mean.

They're so sad they don't understand it so how to -- -- -- work.

You run the website you can register as a donor a volunteer or you can write to sandy as your three options.

City kids gone -- the parents gone and they write a letter -- when hurricane sandy hit I was here.

I felt this and have some pictures of things that kids have -- wanted to show these to our viewers hope they can see -- -- it describe what this picture is here where you -- -- -- stick figures.

And -- the -- gives them this is the kids being rescued this is a fire engine.

And the kids in the family's being rescued.

US accuses me of another one here to treat you on the they shared and there's they had really following this due to mail you the people right these are pictures from kids in Hoboken at this out there.

Since they had no minor accidents and they still -- is so you bet that this is interesting because people have to deal with fraud -- -- view of all sorts of things but you go to this website how do you make sure that the toys that you're able to give out go to kids in need.

We go on it we -- their addresses and where they work during storm.

Since most of the art where they work there all displaced.

We have them give us an address to shipped to them during the last week in December that's -- December.

And Amazon ships directly to that and and so we maintain their address privacy and the donors maintain actress privacy by using a wish list and a link through Amazon.

That's beautiful well we can just imagine how you're gonna.

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