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Your support becomes balloons, cards, and small gifts we deliver by hand.
Support our workA four-week Christmas fundraiser
Christmas Balloon Extravaganza
$5 sends a balloon to a neighbor in a nursing home, a children's home or a women's shelter, a reminder that they are seen, loved, and remembered this Christmas.
Three ways to help
Get involved
Write cards, tie balloons, pack a box, or help from home.
Get involvedSuggest a place
Know a hospital or shelter near Reading that could use some cheer? Tell us about it.
Suggest a placeWho we are
We are Ashton and Chance, two unpaid volunteers in Reading, PA. Teddy is our miniature golden retriever and the face on our balloon weights.
It started with a birthday wish. For her birthday, Ashton asked for balloons, one for every year of her life, to bring to the children's ward at the hospital where she was born.
Read our story
Straight from our Instagram
Photos and reels we shot ourselves, while packing, tying ribbons, and making deliveries.
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She is already beautiful. We just wanted her to know it. (opens Instagram) -
Edith's dahlias. (opens Instagram) -
She is already beautiful. (opens Instagram)
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@operation.floating.sunshine
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Christmas Balloon Extravaganza
For four weeks this November, $5 sends a balloon to a neighbor in a nursing home, a children's home or a women's shelter: a reminder that they are seen, loved, and remembered this Christmas.