City of Portsmouth NH Welfare Department seeks gift card donations suitable for older kids

PORTSMOUTH – As is their annual holiday tradition, the City of Portsmouth Welfare Office is collecting gift cards for families who have older kids that are not typically served by other gift donation programs in the City.

Welfare Department Director Jodi Carnes said, “Local agencies who provide holiday assistance do a wonderful job here in Portsmouth, but teenagers can often be an overlooked population that we serve. To help close that gap, the Welfare Department is again collecting gift cards in small denominations for things like movie tickets, coffee houses, stores such as Old Navy, GameStop, and Kohl's. The community was very generous in donating gift cards to purchase back-to-school supplies and has helped to make the holidays more cheerful, and we hope that they will again this year.”