Season of Giving 2025

Santa Margarita students, faculty and staff have spread Christmas cheer across campus and beyond this season. The season of giving is a time when we focus on the needs of others. As a Catholic school, we strive to live SM's charism of Caritas Christi at Christmas time and all year. 

Thanksgiving Drive Thru

During Thanksgiving break, more than 120 student volunteers and 30 faculty and staff members came together in service. With the generous support of Hanna’s Restaurant, Hanna’s On Campus and their partners, complete Thanksgiving meals were provided to 300 families, serving more than 1,300 individuals. We are also deeply grateful to our school community for supporting the Dash for Cash fundraiser, which raised $2,141.98 to help offset the costs associated with the Drive Thru.

 

 

 

Adopt-a-Family

The extraordinary success of our 2025 Adopt-A-Family Drive embodies our school’s mission and the spirit of Caritas Christi. Through the generosity of our community, we were able to provide Christmas gifts for 44 families at Dale Junior High in Anaheim, making this year’s drive a record in every way. Many gifts were collected, and thousands of dollars worth of gift cards were donated. In this Year of Humility, our community lived out Christ’s call “to serve”.

 

 

Santa Stroll

Baseball partnered with Team NEGU for the annual Santa Stroll on campus. The community comes together to raise awareness and vital funds for the Team NEGU mission. The event spreads Christmas cheer in support of children fighting cancer.

 

 

 

 

Christmas Decorating – Freedom Village

ASB and Campus Ministry joined the residents of Freedom Village to transform their retirement community into a winter wonderland. From hanging lights to decorating trees, everyone spent the day spreading joy and sharing the holiday spirit.

 

 

 

 

Christmas Socks for CHOC

Eagles for CHOC is a health-related humanitarian club dedicated to helping teenagers hospitalized at CHOC. All profits from the sock sale are used to buy Christmas gifts for teenagers hospitalized at CHOC hospital during the Christmas season. According to the Child Life Specialists at CHOC, teenagers are the most overlooked group of patients during the holidays and the most difficult for whom to buy gifts.