Operation Christmas Child 1st-18th November

Homebaked

Sorry, I couldn't find the link for shoeboxes for soldiers, but stumbled across this appeal for boxes for Rwanda. They're for orphans/poor children of the Rwandan genocide. Might be of interest to someone. Their deadline is 17 November.
http://www.hope-survivors.org.uk/flip-flop-shoebox-appeal/

ems2

I read the wikipedia entry about samaratains purse and ONE of the things that stood out as wrong was they made £22m in 2006 and only £1.3m was spent on relief and aid. The rest was spent on promotion and operating their BUSINESS

famous.last.words

I am struggling to find somewhere to take my boxes. My nearest distributor for link Romania is miles and miles away
Got four family boxes ready to go as well.

heres what i put in, if it helps anyone
Family box
- toy cat
- set of plastic knives, spoons and forks
- tampons
- play-doh
- Pencil Sharpener
- toy snake
- bag of chewie sweets x2
- Ear cleaners
- post-in notes
- razors
- loads of hairbands, grips and slides
- 2 transformers toys
- 2 toy cars
- Flannels
- notebook
- pens, pencils, crayons, rubbers and felt tips
- toothbrushes
-toothpaste
- bubbles
- a few saches of face creams, ect.
- all new, from asda and pound shops!

c_l_a_i_r_e

Does anyone know of any other shoebox appeals in northern ireland? Samaritans purse is the only one i can find so far, and i've done 2 for them but just wondering if there were any others? TIA

Ems!

Hi, I'm doing 2 for Samaritans purse - just had a qun, are we allowed to tie them with ribbon etc to seal them or is that pointless as they will be opened to check the contents? Thanks!

emweaver

i use an elastic band as they will be opened for checking but not putting anything i suspect the lid would come off and the contents fall out in transit

Homebaked

A list of random shoebox and toy schemes:
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]CORF[/FONT] Children's Overseas Relief Fund works in Bulgaria, based in Bristol.
http://www.corf.co.uk/shoebox.html

Feed the Children UK – collection points at National Mobile Windscreens premises, working internationally.
http://www.feedthechildren.org.uk/pages/resources_shoeboxes.shtml

Link Romania – collection points nationwide
http://www.linkromania.co.uk/shoebox-appeal

OneChild OneWorld – based in north-east England, works in Belarus
http://www.onechildoneworld.org.uk/index.html

Hope Survivors – based in Hayes Middlesex, works in Rwanda
http://www.hope-survivors.org.uk/flip-flop-shoebox-appeal/

Rotary Clubs – distribute in Romania, operates all year round
http://www.rotary1280.org/shoebox/

The Salvation Army Christmas gift appeal – donate at any Superdrug store
http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/www_uki.nsf/vw-dynamic-arrays/814A1CBE9BCE07F68025709600380F86

Post pals – gift scheme for sick children in the UK.
http://www.postpals.co.uk/

suckmaster.burstingfoam

Naillig51 wrote: »

I notice no-one does anything like this for animals - you have endless charities and children in need etc - but never anything for animals .
Thats where my money will go anyway.
I also dont believe in giving to all these other countries either -there''re enough needy people /animals in our own country .
The government is too keen on throwing money to foreigners - what about looking after ourselves for a change !
Not a christian either - not religious at all .

Is this a joke?

emweaver

I like the idea of post pals but i suspect these children will be getting gifts.

Im going to put a few books and a handbag for a little girl into the boxes at superdrug for local children who cant afford a xmas

emweaver

Nobody should suffer especially children regardless of what country they live in! Its not their fault they live where they do and are in those situations. id like to think people would help us should we ever need it.