The staff and kids at our Little Gems Nursery in Dundonald have been busy at work preparing shoe boxes filled with gifts for Operation Christmas Child.
This is what Samaritian’s Purse have to say about their Operation Christmas Child scheme:
“Operation Christmas Child is the world’s largest children’s Christmas appeal with a heritage of 21 years.
Every year Operation Christmas Child is made possible through the amazing support of thousands of children and adults in the UK and Ireland. Last year alone we had the joy of sending nearly 1.12 million shoeboxes bursting with joy from the UK and several thousand more from Ireland to children living in parts of Africa, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
What’s more, Operation Christmas Child can help your church connect with its community, your schoolchildren connect with other children overseas and your workplace connect with a common cause – a child in need.
Operation Christmas Child works by taking your gift-filled shoebox - packed, wrapped and taken to one of local drop off points – and hand delivering it to a child in need, asking nothing from them in return.
All shoeboxes are given to children in need, with no regard to their background or beliefs. We work with local partners on the ground to ensure that your gift-filled shoebox is delivered with integrity and with respect to the local culture.”
As you can see everyone at Little Gems was only too happy to help out with this charity appeal!
