Southwest University’s secret Santa delivers special gifts
What’s on your christmas wish list? A new pair of boots? Video games? An I-pad perhaps?
Thursday afternoon Southwest University granted 10 students some very special Christmas wishes.
The engines roared and excitement filled the air as Santa arrived in a caravan of motorcycles.
Santa arrived in the Borderland to deliver some special gifts to students at Southwest University.
Students like Naomi Valenzuela.
Valenzuela asked Santa for a plaque for her mothers grave.
“My mom loved jewelery she loved the shiny stuff,” said Valenzuela.
Valenzuela is struggling, but thanks her father for taking care of her.
“It’s been tough getting a job and it’s been tough with my dad paying the bills. It’s just us,” said Valenzuela.
Southwest University’s secret Santa granted Valenzuela her gift.
Jaime Mesa didn’t even ask for his gift.
“My little group of angels. The girls I have in my class asked for the gift,” said Mesa.
Mesa is fighting cancer and at one point, he was trying to sell his books for money.
His classmates asked Santa to pay his medicals bills and Santa delivered!
“I was overwhelmed because I don’t really know any of these people that well that they would do something so big for me,” said Mesa.
Virginia Espinoza is also battling cancer.
She doesn’t have a car and relies on public transportation.
She asked Santa for an electric wheelchair and she got it.
“I was so emotional,” said Espinoza.
“This will save me energy,” Espinoza says, “energy I can use to be with my family and focus on school.”
Mesa tells ABC-7 he’s planning to work in the medical industry and Espinoza says she wants to be a radiologist.
Southwest University tells ABC-7 this was made possible thanks to Dillard’s, which donated more than $5,000 for families in need of clothing.
BEK home medical equipment also helped out with getting the electric chair that Espinoza got and she used it almost immediately.
ABC-7 saw her riding in the wheelchair, holding her granddaughter, on the way to a bus stop.
