LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) -- In 2020, 16-year-old Neia Handy from Potterville started an effort to make Halloween an affordable, festive, and happy experience for all children in mid-Michigan. Every year, she collects, accepts, and purchases Halloween costumes for kids and then gives them away to families in need.

"It's kind of like a year-round effort. I mean, generally I still have some left over after the costume giveaway um, and then we'll got to like Meijer, Target, and sometimes Walmart to, and like find on sale costumes after, after Halloween's over and then we'll go to garage sales too. And then sometime people donate them as well," Handy explained.

For this year's giveaway that took place at the First Presbyterian Church at 510 West Ottawa Street in Lansing on Oct. 11, Handy had mor

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