My Brother’s Keeper started accepting Christmas requests in mid-September and we’ve already promised our help to 1,500 families. We expect this number to grow to 2,700 families in the coming weeks—more than 10,000 children and parents!

So who are the families who reach out to My Brother’s Keeper for help? What are their lives like?

Their stories are as different as there are people: parents and grandparents. . . working, disabled and unemployed. . . families living in Boston, the North Shore, the South Shore, Fall River and the Cape. . . good people from all over eastern Massachusetts.