CTT has already started to receive letters to Santa Claus that, every year, spontaneously reach its network. All will be answered by CTT and this year it is expected that they will reach 170 thousand, all of them on paper, written or drawn by children and adults.
But this year there is once again a second Santa Claus at the Post Office: Santa Claus Solidário, which will deposit in CTT stores across the country, as well as on the Internet, letters written by disadvantaged children in custody or accompanied by IPSS, which anyone can can sponsor, offering the present request for each of them (see information below).
For the first of these Father Christmas, CTT has already mobilized a special team of 15 people who in the coming weeks will dedicate themselves full time to ensuring that all children (and others) receive an answer, helping parents to keep the dream of Your children's Christmas.
CTT will also add a small symbolic gift to the boys who behaved well (that is, everyone). “We just can't say what it is, so as not to spoil the surprise”, emphasize CTT.
Letters to Father Christmas arrive at CTT destined for locations as diverse as the “North Pole”, “Cloud of Father Christmas”, “Terra do Frio” or “Caminho das Estrelas”. These letters are the only ones that are accepted by the Post Office without a stamp, just don't forget to include the return address.
CTT sees letters to Santa Claus as being, often, the first experience of children in writing a letter, a traditional means of communication that electronic means have ended up making more personal and reserved for the really important moments.
Toys continue to dominate Christmas wishes, but they increasingly have competition from orders like books, animals, and even siblings.
Santa Claus Solidarity: Two thousand letters from disadvantaged children ready to be sponsored
But at CTT, Santa Claus has a second vocation: that of guaranteeing that around two thousand disadvantaged children, in custody or accompanied by institutions, also have the right to have their requests fulfilled.
In this sense, CTT asked 2000 children up to 12 years old from 60 charity institutions, from North to South of the country, to write their letters to Santa Claus.
These letters are published on the Internet at www.painatasolidario.pt, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/opainatal and in a selection of 68 CTT stores in mainland Portugal and islands (list below), where anyone can patronize them, offering the child the gift requested.
Just deliver it to CTT, who will deliver it free of charge and keeping the anonymity of the children and godparents.
These children's Christmas dreams are the same as those of all children, who go to Santa Claus with many drawings and some written requests, especially for toys.
The list of institutions supported by this project, as well as the list of CTT stores that have sponsorship letters, can be found on the links and below.
We also attach examples of letters for publication. Higher definition charts are available on request.
Father Christmas Solidarity – Supported institutions:
Casa do Caminho
Sun Association
Hug – Lisbon and Madeira
Tires Children's House
Believe - Wood
Source House
ADAV
Friendly Hand Welcome Home
Casa do Gaiato de São Miguel – Work of Father Américo
Mother's help
house of the boys
SOS Villages – Guard and Gulpilhares
association us
APIA - Childhood Protective Association - Help
Doctor Alves House
Vitamin space
APIT – Pediatric Friends of Ilha Terceira Hospital
house six
HELP
ASCRA – Apulia
Abílio Vaz das Neves Center
Associação Ajuda de Berço
Tercena Temporary Reception Center
Ajudaris Association
Community Center of the Parish of Carcavelos – Intervir project
Associação Crescer Ser – Casas Ameixoeira, Cedofeita, Infantado, Park, Vale, Encosta
Temporary Shelter Center “Growing and Playing”
PT Refugees Council – Espaço Criança
Philadelphia Association
São João de Deus Social Emergency Center – Vitae
Association Research Development Human Rights
High Zone Social Center
Ponte Youth Association
Kindergarten The Cocoon
Mum's and Kids Association
Orphanage Work of Father Grilo
António Silva Leal Foundation – “Adolfo Coelho Institute Children and Youth Home”; “The Amendoinhas”; Whelk; Children's Center “Estrela do Mar”; Dom Dinis Men's Boarding School; “Malta Pequena” crèche
Aboim Ascension Refuge
Dom Pedro IV Foundation – Childhood Home of Olivais
Very rare
Nossa Senhora das Candeias Association
Work of Father Gregory
O Saltarico Association
António Luís de Oliveira Home/School
Child Protective Association
Good Samaritan Children's Home
Nucleus Education for the Unadapted Child - NECI
Father Christmas Solidarity: CTT stores where the cards are available for sponsorship:
Águeda
Paivas (Seixal)
Alhandra
Palmela
Amadora
Parque das Nações (Lisbon)
Mulberries (Lisbon)
Pedro Hispano (Oporto)
Angra do Heroismo
Picoas (Lisbon)
Antero de Quental (Ponta Delgada)
Pombal
Aveiro
Portela
Avenue (Aveiro)
Praça do Município (Lisbon)
Batalha
Pragal (Almada)
Cabo Ruivo (Lisbon)
Victory Beach
Campo de Ourique (Lisbon)
Rat (Lisbon)
Cantanhede
Restorers (Lisbon)
Castelo Branco
Rome (Lisbon)
Chaves
Sao Mamede de Infesta (Matosinhos)
Columbus (Lisbon)
San Jose (Coimbra)
English Cut (Lisbon)
São Domingos de Benfica (Lisbon)
Espinho
Santa Maria da Feira
Estarreja
Santa Marta (Lisbon)
Ferdinand Magellan (Coimbra)
Santarém
Foz do Douro (Porto)
Saint Anthony of the Knights
Fundão
Sao Joao da Madeira
Gaia
Sete Rios (Lisbon)
Oriente Station (Lisbon)
Sintra
Guarda
Tavira
Lagos
Tiles
Leiria
Tomar
Loures
Torres Vedras
Lourosa
Valadares
Matosinhos
Vila do Conde
Market (Funchal)
Townsville
Municipality (Port)
Vila Nova de Gaia
Oeiras
Vila Real
Oliveira de Azeméis
Viseu
Ovar
Zarco (Funchal)
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