Operation Christmas Child is an annual project run by the Christian international relief charity
Samaritan’s Purse. Used shoe boxes are packed with small toys, educational supplies, sweets and other gifts for young children who could otherwise receive no Christmas present at all.
Last year people in Norfolk sent almost 10,000 boxes to Kosovo while 146,000 were sent from the eastern region and 912,000 from the UK as a whole.
Collating, sorting and packing the donated shoeboxes is a mammoth task and the charity has a venue in
Fifers Lane in
Norwich to sort the boxes but still needs premises to store the boxes from the end of October until the beginning of December when they will be picked up by lorry.
If you know of suitable premises, or want to get involved in preparing your own shoeboxes, please contact Area Co-ordinator for Norfolk
Shirley Barber on 01263 735100 or
sbarber12@btinternet.com
Read our previous story on this topic.
To find out more go to
www.operationchristmaschild.org.uk
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