Email from Jesse Lugo & Lugo Charities, Inc.:

Happy Holidays,

Because of generous donations, Lugo Charities Inc. is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 3rd Annual Bike In A Box event on Sunday, December 18, 2011. This year the event will be held at St. Augustine Cathedral Church court yard located at 192 South Stone Avenue.

We will need registration volunteers to be present by 10:00 am so that we can prepare for the event. The volunteers will help to coordinate registration lines and direct the children there for about two hours.

A special invitation to 500 under-privileged children from youth organizations, schools, churches, and children-support agencies in the Greater Tucson area has been sent as they will be attending this special day of giving.

Santa and Mrs. Claus will arrive in a ladder fire truck at 11:00 am to greet each of the children. Each child will be treated to a Christmas stocking and receive one of five-hundred (500) bicycles that we will be giving away, along with a bike safety helmet provided by Tucson Medical Center of the Children’s Miracle Network.

The bicycles will remain in the box so that the parents or guardians can, together with the child, assemble the bicycle in promoting the true Christmas spirit and teaching the children the basic assembly and adjustments to their new bike.

For more information please visit our web page at: www.LugoCharities.com

Please let me know if you will be able to help on Sunday, December 18th from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm at St. Augustine Cathedral Church court yard located at 192 South Stone Avenue.

Merry Christmas,

Jesse Lugo
Lugo Charities Inc.
Bike In A Box
P.O. Box 26363
Tucson, AZ 85726
Web: www.LugoCharities.com
Office:(520) 322-0714

I blogged about this terrific event last year in its 2nd year (click here). Please volunteer or donate $ if your can, to help make this another wonderful year for the 500 lucky children getting their own bike. Each year about $25,000 has to be raised to purchase these bikes.

500 children will be overjoyed to receive a new bicycle today.

Lugo Charities Inc. is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the 2nd Annual Bike-In-A-Box Christmas event on Sunday, December 19, 2010 from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. at St. Augustine Cathedral, 192 South Stone Avenue.

A special invitation to 500 underprivileged children from youth organizations, schools, churches, and children-support agencies in the Greater Tucson area will be attending this special day of giving.

Santa and Mrs. Claus will arrive at 12:00 noon to greet the children. Each child will be treated to a Christmas stocking and receive one of five-hundred (500) bicycles that we are planning to give away, along with a bike safety helmet provided by Tucson Medical Center of the Children’s Miracle Network.

The bicycles will remain in the box so that the parents or guardians can, together with the child, assemble the bicycle in promoting the true Christmas spirit and teaching the children the basic assembly and adjustments to their new bike.

CEO Jesse Lugo with the assistance of John C. Scott (radio talk host with a show of the same name, on KJLL the Jolt, 1330 AM) raised over $27,000 to pay for these bikes, gotten at discount from Walmart at $45 each.

Apparently this is the 11th year of providing these bikes, but in the past volunteers assembled the bikes, but now they are being presented in a cardboard box for the families to assemble themselves.

John C. Scott & Jesse Lugo delivering bikes in a box in 2009

Congratulations to Jesse Lugo and John C. Scott for their hard work, and many thanks to the hundreds of donors who all helped to reach that monetary goal.

Riding a bike safely is a wonderful skill everyone should know. And owning their own bike is probably something most of these children would not have dreamed of, except for the wonderful generosity of the many Tucsonans who helped with Jesse’s project.

For more Information go to Lugo Charities, Inc.

Bike In A Box
P.O. Box 26363
Tucson, AZ 85726
Office:(520) 322-0714