SUCH A BUSY SATURDAY

Yes we are celebrating our first container load going on its long journey to all those children who will be made so happy by receiving a shoebox. 8020 children in fact and they live in Zambia, they may not know it yet but for those 8020 children a shoebox full of wonderful gifts are on the way to them right now.

 Unless you came to the warehouse you cannot imagine how many shoeboxes we have... and how many volunteers there are to help. Some loading, some unloading some packing, some checking shoeboxes, some replenishing the fillers, some driving and some counting the money. This couldn't be done without you all.


Everyone is special because you all play a part in the whole thing and sorry we cannot feature you all.  We try hard to include people in our blog and back in October when we had our launch I met Olivia from Tomlinscote School in Frimley. Olivia has been doing shoeboxes for sometime now and this year has made 20 shoeboxes and she funds all the contents and shipping fees out of her birthday, Christmas and pocket money. The boxes were beautifully wrapped and packed with fantastic things. To be fair she did 6 boys and 6 girl boxes. And gives up her time on Saturday to help us.

And EVERY box is special and EVERY box is different we find some wonderful things in boxes and sometimes a letter or card, Today we found a lovely note attached to the inside of a shoebox. Yet another example of how thoughtful and kind people are.

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