Send a Smile, Give a Giggle

We sent a Christmas Box through Operation Christmas Child this Christmas through COG's Guide Unit. For her it was fun to go through the process of thinking about what someone would like to receive, shopping for it on a budget, wrapping the box. It is a good lesson in humility for a teenager that has everything she wants.

But in fairness, I found the process a bit time consuming and not top of my list of things to do. Mainly because I actually had to go to the shops and I don't do shops - I do on-line shopping.

So 'HELLO to ShoeBoxWorld'   You can do it online, it's easy and it's fun. For about £11 that's pretty much a JD for me.

This is why it's worthwhile:

For many of the children that receive the gift it’s the first Christmas present they’ve ever received.



Concentrate this is the science bit:


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.

The official deadline to submit an Operation Christmas Child shoebox has closed, however people are still able to create a shoebox online, using the fun, interactive site Shoebox World.

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.