The Palm Beach Post launched its annual holiday campaign, Season To Share, in 1995. Each Year on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the paper and its website tells the stories of struggling families who have been nominated by local charitable organizations. Readers are invited to contribute money, merchandise and services to help them.
Charles Obee, 3, who has severe developmental delays, gets upset after his father, Chuck, tells him he cannot have Halloween candy before dinner.
Teresa Murphy, 57, has an untreatable and rare form of thyroid cancer. She has CAT scans done on her throat, abdomen, chest and pelvis to see if chemotherapy has stopped the growing disease. She and husband Bill adopted their daughter's four child in 2008
Linda Koenig watches son Jimmy Koenig, 18, on a video monitor placed in the kitchen. Jimmy, who had a cancerous brain tumor removed as a child, has cerebral palsy, dystonia and autism.
Ellen McPherson, exhausted from being outside with chihuahua Nanalight, finds it difficult to do daily task while suffering from pulmonary ailments.
Sara Alexandre, 26-months, receives chemotherapy treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia while her mother Modeline rest at Palms West Hospital.
Shemiah Pierre, 3, was born with scaphocephaly, a condition where the head is disproportionately long and narrow and can result from the premature fusion of the skull.
Jasmin Pittman, 12, lives in a run down two-bedroom home with her mother, two brothers and five cousins.
Hans Charles, 12, of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at an uncle's home in Florida, recovers from injuries suffered in the January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Charles was buried alive in the ruble for over 24 hours.
Vietnam veteran Steve Monahan, 61, and dog Missy live in a dilapidated trailer; no air conditioning, broken windows and holes in the floors. He suffers from depression and unable to work after his wife Jane died of liver cancer in 2009.
Gloria Nolasco, a single mother, struggles daily with son Emerson Vasquez, 8, who has severe autism.
Deborah Thompson, a single mother, goes over homework with niece Dnyshia Howard, 10, at their home. Deborah cares for her daughter's three children and her niece's three children.
Christina Hilliman, 55, right, who has early onset Alzheimer's disease, visits her sister. Christina, cared for by her two children, cannot remember where she worked and forgets names.
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