If you look on the Facebook page for Hartford Lending Hands Inc., there’s an urgent message: “Urgent: Secret Santa’s Needed … ADOPT A FAMILY IN NEED THIS HOLIDAY SEASON.”

The Christmas registry asks community members to do the following for Connecticut families in need:

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Adopt a family as a Secret Santa

Buy one gift from our registry

Donate any amount toward a fundraiser

Toy donations last year for Hartford Lending Hands Inc.'s Secret Santa distribution

Last year, the group helped about 60 families. This year, the number requesting help is more than double that.

In all, 56 families are taken care of, 56 families are still waiting for Santa, and there are 19 on a waitlist hoping to be placed.

“It’s actually our

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