Next Move Shelter in Sacramento Receives Easter Baskets Packed with Goodies for Children Ages 4-12

UnitedHealthcare employees and local volunteers delivered about 120 Easter baskets today to children and families at Next Move in Sacramento.

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UnitedHealthcare's Scott Kranzel presents an Easter basket to Oaliyah Drones, age 2, and her mother, Syra Drones, residents at the Next Move shelter in Sacramento. This morning, local UnitedHealthcare employees delivered 120 baskets to children at Next Move's 85-bed shelter. This is the eleventh year that UnitedHealthcare employees have come together to donate, assemble and decorate the baskets (Photo: Gary Fong).

Next Move in Sacramento, which offers emergency, transitional and permanent housing, along with children’s services programs, is one of only two shelters in the greater Sacramento area that allows the entire family to stay together in one room.

More than 1,500 Easter baskets are being delivered by UnitedHealthcare employees and local volunteers this week to children at nine nonprofit organizations across California, including the Boys & Girls Clubs located in Sacramento and Tracy.

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