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About the pajama drive

The DC Holiday Pajama Drive has provided thousands of pairs of new pajamas, socks, slippers, scarves, gloves, robes, and more to foster children around the holidays for nearly a decade!

Fostering warmth and caring through the holidays and beyond!


Ship Donations to:

DC Holiday Pajama Drive

C/O K. Jackson

1623 Rosedale Street NE

Washington, DC 20002

Social

Take a Selfie with our elfie and share!

Share your heart with foster children everywhere this holiday season!

Update your Facebook Profile Picture with our frame called "Selfie Elfie" by Jill Jackson!

Here's the link:    


SELFIE ELFIE FB FRAME

(Extra Double Bonus Points for Selfies wearing holiday pajamas, LOL!)

Get the kids involved too with this FREE coloring page!

Here's the link:

selfie elfie coloring page

CBS Evening News

Here's the DC Holiday Pajama Drive on the CBS Evening News!

our latest Video!

Here's the 2020 video!

Our Story

By Kathleen Jackson



In 2011, that first year, I asked for 200 sets of pajamas and ended up with 386 sets of pajamas, each with either a pair of slippers or fuzzy socks. Many received bathrobes, socks, hats, gloves, mittens, and scarves. It really was pretty amazing.  

 This will be the eighth year of the Pajama drive. I got the idea, in 2010 while undergoing treatment and a bone marrow transplant for leukemia. During the 12 weeks that I was hospitalized, I could only wear PJ's. I have such great friends. Several of them sent me several pairs of new pajamas. I loved them and proudly wore my many different pajamas while in hospital. There were days that were just awful and then I would get a package with new jammies.   

I am also the adoptive mom of three wonderful boys. When my kids were initially placed with me (as a foster mom) they had no pajamas. I remember the joy my oldest son expressed when he got his first pair of NEW pajamas. He pranced around our home, gleefully chanting that he LOVED HIS (Sponge Bob) PAJAMAS. Most kids when they enter foster care, come in with only the clothes on their backs. Many, like my boys, have never had pajamas, certainly not NEW pajamas.   

When I was in the hospital, I promised myself and God that if I survived the leukemia, I would pay it forward, in a big way. As I was getting ready to celebrate my first post-transplant holidays, I began to focus on what my family holiday traditions were and how important it was for me to continue those traditions for my boys. I needed to create a sense of normal for a very abnormal year. As I thought about the tradition of a new set of pajamas for Christmas, I was reminded of the thousands, yes, thousands of kids in foster care that did not have that tradition. I wanted to change that. I also wanted to teach my boys a lesson in gratitude and remembering where they came from. It was important for them to understand that someone always has less than you.
In 2012, we set a goal of 500 sets of pajamas and again, that goal was more than met, it was surpassed. We ended up with over 600 sets of pajamas, along with slippers, fuzzy socks, hats, mitten, gloves etc.  

In 2013, I was challenged to aim big so we set the goal for 1000 sets and ended up with over 1500 sets of pajamas. We were able to share pj's with kids in a homeless shelter. It was this year that as a family we decided that we would like to do this annually. Getting new pajamas was such a big part of our family holiday tradition. We would like to pass that on to as many kids in care as possible   

In 2014, The CBS evening news followed us and our story aired on Christmas eve.  This was an amazing opportunity and I felt so blessed to have been able to share the story of the pajama drive.    
Four years later, in 2018, I am told that there are still almost 1000 kids in care so we continue to  aim high. We are aiming for 1000 again but will welcome as many as we get because there will be a kid that will happily receive a new set of pajamas.   

In previous years, schools throughout the metro DC area have helped collect pajamas. It seems to be a message that kids and adults of all ages have been able to connect with.   Again, the biggest needs remain for teens. Those teens wear adult sizes, all the way up to XXXL sizes for both girls and boys.  

Thanks for your support in this dream of mine to get every kid in care a new pair of PJ's for  Christmas.   

Kathleen Jackson, Founder
DC Holiday Pajama Drive
November 5, 2018 

2019 video

This one just got added to the list!

2018 video

This is our video for the 2018 DC Holiday Pajama Drive!

2017 video

Here's our video from 2017!

2013 video

Here's the 2013 video!

2012 video

Here's the video for 2012!

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