Halloween Candy Donations - November 2021

Cumming Dental Smiles exceeded expectations at this year's annual Halloween Candy Buy Back Event collecting more than 500 pounds of Halloween Candy!

Every year our office participates in this great event in which we accept donations or buy back candy from trick-or-treaters to send to a non-profit organization Operation Shoebox. They in turn use the candy to create Christmas care packages that are sent out to troops serving our country overseas. We collected the candy at our Cumming Dentist office for two weeks after the Halloween visiting neighborhoods around Cumming area and through facebook campaigns, reached out to lot of folks in Cumming.

It was great pleasure this year as Dr.Praveen Gudipati went to Operation Shoe Box Head Office in Belleview, Florida and donated the candy and letters for troops. He met wonderful and dedicated volunteers at Operation Shoe Box. Under the leadership of Mary Harper, the organization is doing an awesome job to collect and send care packages to our brave soldiers.

Dr. Praveen Gudipati at Cumming Dental Smiles says "The purpose of this event is not only to show support and gratitude for our troops, but also to teach our children about gratitude, compassion, and kindness while protecting their health by removing a huge amount of candy from their diets”.

We are so glad to see this overwhelming response from everyone, in the midst of everything going on, still wanting to donate the candy to show our gratitude to our troops.

Dr. Praveen Gudipati at Cumming Dental Smiles says the purpose of this event is:

1. To teach children about gratitude, compassion and kindness.
2. To take out huge amount of candy from kids diet to protect their health and teeth.
3. To show our support to our troops by sending letters and candy during Holiday time.