Great news – 11,040 beautifully wrapped shoeboxes, filled with gifts, have arrived in Romania to be stored in People to People’s warehouse ready for our distribution team. The team is due out on December 4th and will travel to Transylvania to distribute half of the boxes. This is where the new Vegetable Garden Plot campaign is underway. The other half will be given out by our partner charity, People 2 People in and around Oradea.
The Trustees send their very sincere thanks to everyone who has been concerned with this year’s campaign, whatever part you have played. You may have filled one box or more, inspired others, knitted, sewn, collected, checked, packed, loaded etc. We know we have an army of volunteers throughout the county (indeed the whole country), who have been beavering away all whole year round. This is a massive project, and the shoeboxes are full of generous and warm-hearted spirit from our communities.
Your boxes, filled with such care and compassion, will bring a little light to children living in abject poverty. And that is by no means the end of the story. As we take them round with Nicu Gal, our charity partner, we are all assessing and identifying other ways in which we can give practical help to these people who are so disadvantaged. Each team takes funds to respond to any urgent need, usually food parcels which we buy over there. And in the longer term, any surplus funding from the shoebox campaign and the many other fundraising efforts which take place throughout the year, goes directly to help with educational projects.
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