The non-profit 'Operation Warm', has manufactured more than 4 million coats for children in need across the country, paid for by donations in the past 23 years.
About 27 million American children live in low-income families, and are in need of a coat to bundle up against the cold. "It's freezing. My hands are freezing, my body is freezing," she said.
Mikayla is one of 800 students at a New York City public school taking home a winter jacket thanks to Operation Warm. "Because the coat is the first thing, it's the tangible thing. But what that really provides is warmth, physical warmth, the emotional warmth," Operation Warm's marketing director, Brenda Lee, told CBS News.
In the past 23 years, the nonprofit has manufactured more than 4 million coats for children in need across the country, paid for by donations.Coat requests have tripled during the pandemic. Kids, like kindergartener Isabella, get to pick their coat color. She said her favorite colors are pink and purple.
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