This amazing foundation collects Christmas presents for children in desperate situations around the world who do not to experience the joys of Christmas. In a regular size shoe box, you can choose a boy or a girl betwen the ages 2-4, 5-9, or 10-14 to provide a well-balanced variety of items from school supplies, toys and other gifts, hgyience items, and personal notes. With your donation your shoe box can make a young child extremely happy. Pamplets of information and the shoe boxes will be provided in your cohort classes.
We will be collecting the boxes between Oct 22- Nov 7th before our Block 1 Placements.
From the Operation Christmas Child Website:
Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to children in desperate situations around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes.
Operation Christmas Child was started in 1990 by Dave Cooke, a Welshman who felt moved to deliver gifts to Romanian orphans after seeing their living circumstances on television. In 1993, Operation Christmas Child grew and was adopted by Samaritan's Purse, a Christian organization run by Franklin Graham.
To date, Operation Christmas Child has collected and distributed over 94 million shoe box gifts worldwide. Each shoe box gift is filled with hygiene items, school supplies, toys, and candy, is given to children regardless of gender, race, religion, or age. When culturally appropriate, copies of a book entitled The Greatest Gift of All, which has been translated into 130 different languages, are offered to children after the shoe box has already been distributed.
For more information Operation Christmas Child
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