Samaritan’s Purse UK is a humanitarian relief and development organisation working in 18 countries across Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. One of their major projects is Operation Christmas Child, the UK’s leading shoebox appeal, where every Christmas they send on average 1.6 million gift-filled shoeboxes to children in need in the developing world. http://www.operationchristmaschild.org.uk/
For many of the children that receive the gift it’s the first Christmas present they’ve ever received. So it’s important that they spread the word about this project as far as they can!
The official deadline to submit an Operation Christmas Child shoebox has closed, however you are still able to create a shoebox online, using their fun, interactive site Shoebox World. http://operationchristmaschild.org.uk/shoeboxworld/
A shoebox can be created from as little as £11, and it will go to a child in the Lofa County, Liberia. The Lofa County is a region of Liberia where a significant proportion of child soldiers in the Liberian Civil War were recruited, so the gifts will have a massive impact on the morale of the community. They’ve created a video animation http://youtu.be/v7NFumFuTrA to explain to people the power of a gift-filled shoebox.
