For the sixth year, employees at Amazon in Winchester donated and wrapped hundreds upon hundreds of gifts for local children.

One recent rainy afternoon, Amazon employees and representatives from the Salvation Army carried the piles of presents out to waiting vehicles to be given to local children on the charity’s angel tree.

“It’s enough for our 100 kids,” Salvation Army local service unit chairman Shannon Cox said. “We’ll probably split them up and serve 150. These are kids on angel trees. These are foster kids. We just make sure no one gets left out.”

Cox and Amazon group manager Brandon Ollis said the company has given to the program annually for about six years. Ollis said employees at the Winchester facility are involved throughout the process.

“We actually provide our agents to select (presents) based on the age group,” Ollis said. The employees will break into team to choose gifts for a certain age group, order the items. They then came in on their own time to wrap everything, he said.

This year, the company donated more than 500 gifts, Ollis said.

The impact, Cox said, has been tremendous.

“I can’t find a kid the last four or five years that got left out at Christmas,” Cox said to the employees. “You guys, if you know it or not, truly are Santa Claus.”

Some of the gifts, Cox said, will even go to children in foster care in neighboring counties.

The company’s donation is a way to give back.

“We work with the public in a lot of different aspects,” Ollis said. “We know the support of the community… We have an obligation to make sure we do the right thing for them. (The employees) get to be part of giving back on a larger scale.”

The best part, he said, is knowing a lot of people will have a better Christmas.

“I can’t imagine the number of smiles it causes for the kids out there,” Ollis said. “At the end of the day, we really want to give back to the community and us and the employees have an opportunity to be part of that.”