Christmas Shoebox Appeal

IT'S EASY TO TAKE PART, YET YOUR KINDNESS CAN MAKE A NEEDY CHILD'S CHRISTMAS, A CHRISTMAS OF HOPE - ONE THEY WILL NEVER FORGET !

The TEAM HOPE Christmas Shoebox Appeal is brought to you by the same people, (the same staff in Dublin and all the same volunteer teams around the country) who, as part of Samaritan's Purse, for the last eleven years ran Operation Christmas Child.
But now it's an Irish project, we're no longer part of Samaritan's Purse.
The TEAM HOPE Christmas Shoebox Appeal is new, it's exciting and it promises to get your box into the hands of a needy child In Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union or Africa.
Maybe an orphan in rural Romania, a girl living on the streets of Mozambique, a boy with cancer in a Ukraine hospital, a nine year old whose Mum and Dad have died of AIDS in Lesotho, or a girl who was sold into prostitution in Moldova.
HOW DOES IT WORK ?
We ask you to fill a shoebox with a range of simple Christmas gifts, and drop it off at your local drop off point before November 10th, and we will do the rest !
We check that it meets all the customs and safety requirements, seal it and send it on its way by truck or container. In the receiving country our network of partners will deliver it right into a child's hands - in hospitals, schools, shelters, churches, orphanages, community centres or family homes. When the local leader requests it, as an optional extra, we will also give a Christmas card - explaining where their box came from, a little about Ireland and the significance of the Christmas story.
YOUR SHOEBOX CAN TURN JUST ANOTHER DAY IN A CHILD'S LIFE INTO SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL, A DAY THAT THEY WILL REMEMBER FOR YEARS TO COME
This year students from first, second and third year RE classes, as well as the Repeat Leaving Cert group, worked on this project. On 11th November, 56 shoebox gifts were collected from the College by Team Hope representatives. This means that as a result of the efforts of all of these students that 56 young people, who otherwise would have received nothing this Christmas, will wake up on Christmas morning to receive a gift that will brighten their lives. Well done to all who contributed and to organising teachers Ms. Connolly and M. O'Connor.