The Palmetto Bank will offer residents across the Upstate a chance to make a difference in the lives of children during the holiday season with the bank's thirteenth annual "Be An Angel!" program.

The Palmetto Bank, in partnership with Hands On Greenville, The Salvation Army of Spartanburg, and Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenwood, Laurens, Oconee, Pickens and York Counties' Departments of Social Services, has made available to those interested, the opportunity to "sponsor" a child during the holiday season by providing gifts they would not otherwise receive. Those interested in the "Be An Angel!" program may stop by any of The Palmetto Bank's 29 Upstate locations to select a child's name from the "Angel Tree."

Gifts purchased for the children should be returned, unwrapped, to the branch where the child was selected. The bank will deliver the gifts to Hands On Greenville, The Salvation Army of Spartanburg and DSS offices, which will then distribute them to the children.